On 2011-07-06 21:07:09 +0200, Benoît Knecht wrote: > As for the insufficient documentation, coreutils man pages tend to be a > bit short on words, because they are generated from the command's help > output. But they always point to the Texinfo manual for details, which > in this case states: "Do not warn about or create files that do not > exist." So the "no warning about non-existing files" behavior _is_ > documented.
The lack of documentation was actually fixed in the Texinfo manual (this was part of my bug report): In Debian/lenny: `-c' `--no-create' Do not create files that do not exist. In Debian/squeeze: `-c' `--no-create' Do not warn about or create files that do not exist. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arénaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org