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From: Fergus Daly <fergusd84@outlook.com>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: Fergus Daly <fergusd84@outlook.com>
Subject: Re: Updated: coreutils 9.1
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2022 03:21:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <DB6P18901MB0055498078C3B142519D7AB7A4A59@DB6P18901MB0055.EURP189.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)

Since updating from coreutils 8.32 I’m getting a weird glitch from cp.
If /location1/dir1/ contains additional material to /location2/dir1/ (as might frequently be the case when maintaining a backup) then the command
$ cp -vrn /location1/dir1 /location2
should copy the additional material across. (I do this regularly, working in two locations on two machines with a stick to manage the transactions.)
Since updating coreutils, this command yields an error message as follows:
$ cp -vrn /location1/dir1 /location2
/bin/cp: cannot create directory '/location2/dir1': File exists
I haven’t tried any other variations on cp or explored any other commands (e.g. ls) that have altered with the update.
This occurs in both 32-bit and 64-bit Cygwin.
Fergus

             reply	other threads:[~2022-06-07  3:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-07  3:21 Fergus Daly [this message]
2022-06-07  3:52 ` Updated: coreutils 9.1 cp problem Brian Inglis
     [not found] <20220605233012.26971-1-Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca>
     [not found] ` <CAK-n8j68ZGe=LQP7sK+Otv80Xfa4qR5pQR1CYZjr1xkXBDctxg@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <CAK-n8j5kN316+d9jcKDgne4VXR3yPDUG7ONMVo7h7zX5vEQSjQ@mail.gmail.com>
2022-07-19 16:45     ` Updated: coreutils 9.1 Brian Inglis
2022-07-19 17:06       ` Jim Reisert AD1C
2022-07-30  8:35 Fergus Daly

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