cp /dev/null
John Kelly
jakelly at shtc.net
Tue Nov 1 21:58:48 UTC 2005
On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 19:37:04 +0000, Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo.org>
wrote:
>> cp /dev/null myfile
>>
>> should create a (normal) empty file named "myfile" but it copies the
>> device file /dev/null, as though the -a flag was specified.
>it's been mentioned on the mailing list before and i think there's already a
>bug ... search the bug tracker before filing one ;P
Thanks, Mike.
I see bug 243, dated 05-03-05.
I looked at the mainline code to see how different it is. Ugh. Looks
like a lot.
I think I will just use the real cp and omit cp from my busybox build.
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