On Sat, Mar 05, 2016 at 01:41:32AM +0100, Timo Buhrmester wrote: > >From src/bin/cp/cp.c: > > while ((ch = getopt(argc, argv, "HLNPRfailprv")) != -1) > > [...] > > case 'i': > > iflag = isatty(fileno(stdin)); > The -i in cp -i is ignored if standard input isn't a tty. > > This breaks doing something along the lines of ``yes n | cp -i [...]'' > (obviously overwriting files that weren't supposed to be overwritten, > as well was rendering the only way to stop cp from overwriting existing > files ineffective in scripts) > > Our man page also doesn't mention this twist.
eek that should be fixed immediately! (fortunately it looks like ln and mv don't have this rubbish) -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
