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List:       coreutils
Subject:    Re: cp -n: now exits yet without error message
From:       Pádraig_Brady <P () draigBrady ! com>
Date:       2023-04-09 19:29:23
Message-ID: ad309502-1085-e4bd-1bba-6a56ed06095e () draigBrady ! com
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On 08/04/2023 17:21, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 4/7/23 11:39, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> In that thread I did suggest a diagnostic would be appropriate here.
>> Thinking more about it I'm more convinced we should diagnose here
>> especially as we're changing long standing behavior of --no-clobber.
>>
>> The attached outputs new "skipped" errors with --no-clobber,
>> and similar "skipped" messages with --verbose.
> 
> I like it, thanks!
> 
> Nit:
> 
>   > +** Changes in behavior
>   > +
>   > +  'cp -n' and 'mv -n' now issue an error diagnostic if skipping a file,
>   > +  to correspond with -n inducing a nonzero exit status since coreutils 9.1.
> 
> s/9.1/9.2/

Fixed and pushed.

thanks,
Pádraig


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