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water-ghosts opened this issue Jan 31, 2022 · 0 comments · Fixed by #3033
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"cp -lb" shouldn't fail if the destination file exists #2983

water-ghosts opened this issue Jan 31, 2022 · 0 comments · Fixed by #3033
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water-ghosts commented Jan 31, 2022 •
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touch file1
touch file2
cp -lb file1 file2

On GNU, this succeeds, and the directory will have three files: file1, file2, and file2~. On uutils, this fails with the error cp: 'file1' -> 'file2': File exists (os error 17)
@water-ghosts water-ghosts changed the title "cp -l" shouldn't fail if the destination file exists "cp -lb" shouldn't fail if the destination file exists Jan 31, 2022
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