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Re: why link when have ln
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Paul Jarc |
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Re: why link when have ln |
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Thu, 24 Jun 2004 01:34:17 -0400 |
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Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> It might be better to add an option (-D or --no-destdir, say) that
> causes ln, cp, and mv to not treat the last operand specially because
> it happens to be a directory.
I suggested an option a while ago (I think we ended up calling it
--as-is) that would make the directory determination based on whether
the path ends with a "/", without inspecting the filesystem.
paul