How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse? [LWN.net]

How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse?

Posted Apr 9, 2008 3:06 UTC (Wed) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599)
In reply to: How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse? by im14u2c
Parent article: How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse?

Also keep in mind that the target for ln is optional. Thus:

   ln -s foo/bar .
   ln -s foo/bar

...are equivalent. Sadly, cp foo/bar doesn't quite work.

Greg

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How Do I Make This Hard to Misuse?

Posted Apr 9, 2008 3:33 UTC (Wed) by im14u2c (subscriber, #5246) [Link]

That aspect of 'cp' always drove me nuts, probably because I learned MS-DOS first.  I've found
myself tempted to write a wrapper around 'cp' to make that form work.

I won't, though, only because I know it'll wreak havoc when I go to use someone else's account
for whatever reason.  (e.g. to show them how to do something.)