Bug 17814 - -i flag in cp overrides -f
Summary: -i flag in cp overrides -f
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: fileutils
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
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Reported: 2000-09-24 19:13 UTC by Frank Sweetser
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-09-24 19:13:57 UTC
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Description Frank Sweetser 2000-09-24 19:13:55 UTC 
Previously, -f used to override the -i flag.  In cp, this is no longer the
case, while it appears to be so in rm.

> touch foo
> touch bar
> /bin/cp -i -f foo bar
/bin/cp: overwrite 'bar`? y
>/bin/rm -i -f bar
>
Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-10-01 22:24:07 UTC 
It's not a bug, it's a feature.
I don't like it either, but POSIX demands it.
Comment 2 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-12-18 15:52:01 UTC 
*** Bug 22451 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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