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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | bug#32127: RFE -- in the way "cp -rl" -- enable 'ln' to do likewise? |
| Date: | Fri, 13 Jul 2018 16:40:42 -0500 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 |
On 07/12/2018 02:16 AM, L A Walsh wrote: > > I'm asking why does 'ln' bother to tell the user that they are > wrong and do nothing useful? Why not just go ahead and create a symlink The user didn't ask for a symlink, and it sounds unwise for ln to be second-guessing that. Sometimes, reporting an error and exiting is a better thing to do.
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