Thanks.
Better to be explicit I suppose.
How about:
-In the absence of this option, each destination file is created with the
+In the absence of this option, the permissions of existing destination
+files are unchanged, while each new file is created with the
mode bits of the corresponding source file, m
Fellows, I don't think
(info "(coreutils) cp invocation")
mentions how
$ touch m
$ cp m n
$ chmod 444 m
$ cp m n #THESE LINES
$ cp m p #MAKE DIFFERENT THINGS
$ ls -l
-r--r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 0 07-28 11:20 m
-rw-r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 0 07-28 11:21 n
-r--r--r-- 1 jidanni jidanni 0 07-28 11:21
