Re: Bug, or me being stupid?

Hello.

Andrew Walrond wrote:
> I want to copy a dir, preserving modes and timestamps but assuming
> ownership, and I keep getting this error:
> 
> daedalus@bob daedalus $ cp -r --preserve=mode,timestamps fly fly2
> cp: ambiguous argument `' for `--preserve'
> Valid arguments are:
>    - `mode'
>    - `timestamps'
>    - `ownership'
>    - `links'
>    - `all'
> Try `cp --help' for more information.
> 
> Am I being stupid, or is this a bug? I'm using coreutils-4.5.3.

It looks like it's been fixed in coreutils 4.5.4. From ChangeLog:

2002-12-11  TAKAI Kousuke  <[email protected]>

        Fix a bug whereby cp would fail to parse an option like
        --preserve=mode,ownership.
        * src/cp.c (decode_preserve_arg): Advance `comma' to
        point the character following the comma.

coreutils 4.5.5 is out now.

Regards,

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