Re: Bug, or me being stupid?

Ah - thanks! I'll upgrade and see how I get on

Richard Dawe wrote:
> 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,
>