Subject: Re: bugs and/or misfeatures in namei changes
To: John F. Woods <email@example.com>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@Plexus.COM>
Date: 05/10/1997 11:29:22
On Sat, 10 May 1997, John F. Woods wrote:
> For an archive that I maintain, I have been in the habit of testing
> for a directory that might or might not exist with
> cp file /archive/path/directory/
1) Why not use `test -d'?
2) I'm pretty certain this is POSIX-compliant behavior, but I don't have a
copy of the standard, so you'll have to take this with a grain of salt.