On 18 June 2011 04:13, Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> wrote: > Bruce Momjian wrote: >> >> Wow, this is the first I am hearing GNU cp -i can return zero exit if it >> doesn't do the copy. I tested this on Ubuntu 10.04 using cp 7.4 and >> got: >> >> $ touch x y >> $ cp -i x y; echo $? >> cp: overwrite `y'? n >> 0 >> >> I see the same on my anchent BSD/OS machine too: >> >> $ touch x y >> $ cp -i x y; echo $? >> overwrite y? n >> 0 >> >> Were we expecting an error if the file already existed? Assuming that, >> we should assume the file will always exist so basically archiving will >> never progress. Is this what we want? I just wasn't aware we were >> expecting an already-existing this to be an error --- I thought we just >> didn't want to overwrite it. > > I tested on FreeBSD 7.4 and saw a 1 error return: > > $ touch x y > $ cp -i x y; echo $? > overwrite y? (y/n [n]) n > not overwritten > 1
And on a Mac (so through Darwin 10.7.0 a BSD version too): toucan:tmp thom$ touch x y toucan:tmp thom$ cp -i x y; echo $? overwrite y? (y/n [n]) n not overwritten 1 Thom -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
