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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2005-08-22 10:31:55 +0000 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2005-08-22 10:31:55 +0000 |
commit | b5e741091df258fe2487853b047891e11383896d (patch) | |
tree | 654128523f6e6afe565d2115ff1c7db77c15117e | |
parent | a0037fae22000ebce1e0617960a6b013b2ef02e7 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-b5e741091df258fe2487853b047891e11383896d.tar.xz |
(do_link): If ln is invoked with --interactive (-i),
encounters an existing destination file, and gets an affirmative
response, then first try to unlink the destination file rather
than simply failing. Suggestion from Karl Berry.
-rw-r--r-- | src/ln.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ do_link (const char *source, const char *dest, bool dest_is_dir) fprintf (stderr, _("%s: replace %s? "), program_name, quote (dest)); if (!yesno ()) return true; + remove_existing_files = true; } if (backup_type != no_backups) |