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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1997-12-11 08:40:10 +0000 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 1997-12-11 08:40:10 +0000 |
commit | a320eee15855e557ce07c3d47cb262484b139846 (patch) | |
tree | 7334a9e2568b64b7f7f2a83e2d44aedf3d6a0336 /src/ln.c | |
parent | 603137e2ab769ccda196142fb6809cab3bbfee35 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-a320eee15855e557ce07c3d47cb262484b139846.tar.xz |
(do_link): Don't require --force when target exists and
using --backup. This changes makes ln consistent with cp and mv in
this respect. Suggestion from Eli Zaretskii.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/ln.c')
-rw-r--r-- | src/ln.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ do_link (const char *source, const char *dest) if (!yesno ()) return 0; } - else if (!remove_existing_files) + else if (!remove_existing_files && backup_type == none) { error (0, 0, _("%s: File exists"), dest); return 1; |