On Fri, 10 Nov 2023, Sven Joachim wrote:
| 'cp -n' and 'mv -n' now exit with nonzero status if they skip their
| action because the destination exists, and likewise for 'cp -i',
Ouch! Nonzero? That’s harsh, and bad as it’s impossible to distinguish
between error and declining to copy/move.
There is a good example in diff(1) for how to handle this better:
use distinct errorlevels for each case.
Michael, could you perhaps throw that upstream?
bye,
//mirabilos
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15:41⎜<Lo-lan-do:#fusionforge> Somebody write a testsuite for helloworld :-)