#!/bin/sh # cp -r should not create symlinks. Fixed in fileutils-4.1.5. # Copyright (C) 2001-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . # Restored old behavior (whereby cp -r preserves symlinks) in 4.1.6, # though now such usage evokes a warning: # cp: 'slink': WARNING: using -r to copy symbolic links is not portable . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ cp echo abc > foo || framework_failure_ ln -s foo slink || framework_failure_ ln -s no-such-file no-file || framework_failure_ # This would fail in 4.1.5, not in 4.1.6. cp -r no-file junk 2>/dev/null || fail=1 cp -r slink bar 2>/dev/null || fail=1 set x $(ls -l bar); shift; mode=$1 case $mode in l*) ;; *) fail=1;; esac Exit $fail