Re: Making copies of files

[michael-franzese]

Am trying to figure out what the option "--" does with cp.

> Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2021 at 6:19 AM
> From: michael-franzese@gmx.com
> To: "Greg Wooledge" <greg@wooledge.org>
> Cc: help-bash@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Making copies of files
>
> I would need a copy.  Not really after a hard link.
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> > Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2021 at 6:16 AM
> > From: "Greg Wooledge" <greg@wooledge.org>
> > To: help-bash@gnu.org
> > Subject: Re: Making copies of files
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 08:12:10PM +0200, michael-franzese@gmx.com wrote:
> > > I would need an actual copy as I need to make also some modifications
> > > to the resulting org files, [...]
> >
> > 1. The questioner's first description of the problem/question will be
> >    misleading.
> >
> > Well then, replace the cp with whatever you *actually* need to do...
> > meanwhile, we will wait for the second change of question.
> >
> >
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