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Old 06-02-2011
Bug Argument in Linux

I am trying to see the commands that can work also with only one argument. I tried that man to see the commands details but could not figure out. Here in my scenario I have ln, cp and mv commands. I am trying to see if these command can also work with just one argument. It looks like cp works if I am right?

could you give me help to find out the commands?
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Old 06-02-2011
Neither ln, cp or mv take just one argument.
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Old 06-02-2011
Could you give me an example?
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Old 06-02-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by fpmurphy
Neither ln, cp or mv take just one argument.
While posix does not allow it, BSD and GNU ln(1) do accept a solitary argument (they'll create a link to the named file in the current directory).

Regards,
Alister
 
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