bug#62572: cp --no-clobber behavior has changed

[Alberto Salvia Novella]

https://youtu.be/o_kh1_gOkwk

On Fri, 31 Mar 2023 at 22:01, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> On 2023-03-31 10:01, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote:
> > Is this on purpose?
>
> Yes, part of the idea was to let shell programmers easily test whether
> cp successfully copied the data. Having cp -i conform to POSIX was a
> lesser consideration, though it's a bit nicer if -n and -i are somewhat
> consistent.
>
> For what it's worth, the old behavior wasn't documented and the new
> behavior is.
>