Wrong cp exe magic

Reini Urban rurban@x-ray.at
Tue Jul 28 11:56:00 GMT 2009


I forgot if this was already raised, but it looks pretty weird:

$ cp /usr/src/xapian/xapian-omega-1.0.14a/.build/.libs/scriptindex /bin/
cp: cannot create regular file `/bin/scriptindex': File exists

$ cp -f /usr/src/xapian/xapian-omega-1.0.14a/.build/.libs/scriptindex /bin/
cp: cannot create regular file `/bin/scriptindex': File exists

$ cp -f /usr/src/xapian/xapian-omega-1.0.14a/.build/.libs/scriptindex.exe /bin/

At least --force should outsmart our .exe magic.
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