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authorJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-06-21 15:02:28 +0000
committerJim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>2004-06-21 15:02:28 +0000
commit110be46897450cd5fa90e3a955ab9092db128cea (patch)
tree82e927df0bedc5b759b868d8cd6ce77aba9d2437
parentbddcb0eab2b264292a55c2c9bea6515df70b51d8 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-110be46897450cd5fa90e3a955ab9092db128cea.tar.xz
Standardize on the diagnostics given when someone gives
too few operands ("missing operand after `xxx'") or too many operands ("extra operand `xxx'"). Include "quote.h" and/or "error.h" if it wasn't already being included. (do_copy): Likewise.
-rw-r--r--src/cp.c13
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/src/cp.c b/src/cp.c
index 4f2f1b0c0..3bcdd0a64 100644
--- a/src/cp.c
+++ b/src/cp.c
@@ -478,14 +478,13 @@ do_copy (int n_files, char **file, const char *target_directory,
int ret = 0;
int dest_is_dir = 0;
- if (n_files <= 0)
+ if (n_files <= !target_directory)
{
- error (0, 0, _("missing file argument"));
- usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
- }
- if (n_files == 1 && !target_directory)
- {
- error (0, 0, _("missing destination file"));
+ if (n_files == 0)
+ error (0, 0, _("missing file operand"));
+ else
+ error (0, 0, _("missing destination file operand after %s"),
+ quote (file[0]));
usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
}