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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2000-09-05 10:41:18 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2000-09-05 10:41:18 +0000 |
| commit | 3260d507f5bb51de1b831ed316964659f3b47f19 (patch) | |
| tree | 75b3da769d11b44cda307deaf9cee4e0b2199c66 /old/fileutils/NEWS | |
| parent | 537879ee7df83d49514d9a91d87577e543bff94a (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-3260d507f5bb51de1b831ed316964659f3b47f19.tar.xz | |
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diff --git a/old/fileutils/NEWS b/old/fileutils/NEWS index 82831300e..cd5b7b632 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/NEWS +++ b/old/fileutils/NEWS @@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ Changes in release 4.01: [4.0z] * mv's --force (-f) option now controls solely whether mv prompts (per POSIX) * `cp -f' now first attempts to open an existing destination file, and only - if that fails does it resort to unlinking the file and retrying the open + if that fails does it resort to unlinking the file and retrying the open. + Before, it would unlink the file before trying to open it. +* cp accepts a new option, --remove-destination, that provides the old behavior +* cp's -f option no longer cancels the effect of --interactive (-i) (per POSIX) * when ls sorts directory entries, it now honors the current locale settings * dd's `skip=BLOCKS' operator once again works on systems with a buggy lseek function (Linux, at least on SCSI tape devices) |