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Interesting effects with symlinks
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- To: Earnie Boyd <Cygwin at Cygwin dot Com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 15:04:42 -0500
- Subject: Interesting effects with symlinks
I have a symlink bar pointing to foo.exe. But I decide I want to copy
foo.exe to bar.exe instead via `cp -f foo.exe bar.exe'. Now I end up
with two files bar and bar.exe. Here's the interesting point, bar which
was a symlink is now a copy of foo.exe.
Earnie.
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