Re: coreutils bug with "ln x d/"

[Paul Jarc]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden (Paul Jarc) writes:
>> --syntactic won't be surprising, and can offer some convenience -
>> you can omit the basename from the target if it's the same as the
>> source's.
>
> If you want to do that, you can use --target-directory already.

Ah, ok.  Yes, that works.  BTW, the cp 5.2.1 man page has a copy+paste
error from the mv man page in the description of --target-directory:
"move" should be "copy".


paul