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Re: coreutils bug with "ln x d/"
From: |
Paul Jarc |
Subject: |
Re: coreutils bug with "ln x d/" |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Jun 2004 14:21:37 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> --syntactic won't be surprising, and can offer some convenience -
>> you can omit the basename from the target if it's the same as the
>> source's.
>
> If you want to do that, you can use --target-directory already.
Ah, ok. Yes, that works. BTW, the cp 5.2.1 man page has a copy+paste
error from the mv man page in the description of --target-directory:
"move" should be "copy".
paul