Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-5 Severity: normal When using > cp -lar srcdir/* targetdir
on a srcdir containing files (no matter how deep in srcdir) with spaces in their filenames, cp complains: > cp: cannot create hard link `targetdir/(...)/filename' to > `targetdir/(...)/filename': No such file or directory This cryptical message (which implies trying to create a hardlink from a file to itself?) is caused by a filename containing a space. Note that I took the quotes in the above messages exactly as they were: not even a small hint about a whitespace at the end of a filename, it took me ages to find the cause of this problem! Also note that this problem isn't related to some kind of shell variable expansion, since I'm using recursive cp. The file responsible for my problems was about 5 levels deep in the directory structure under srcdir. In my opinion cp should be able to handle filenames containing all kinds of permitted characters, this includes filenames with a white space at the end. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.41-1 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 1.32-3 SELinux shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
