tests/cp/r-vs-symlink.sh

   1 #!/bin/sh
   2 # cp -r should not create symlinks.  Fixed in fileutils-4.1.5.
   3
   4 # Copyright (C) 2001-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   5
   6 # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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   8 # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
   9 # (at your option) any later version.
  10
  11 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  12 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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  14 # GNU General Public License for more details.
  15
  16 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  17 # along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  18
  19 # Restored old behavior (whereby cp -r preserves symlinks) in 4.1.6,
  20 # though now such usage evokes a warning:
  21 # cp: 'slink': WARNING: using -r to copy symbolic links is not portable
  22
  23 . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src
  24 print_ver_ cp
  25
  26 echo abc > foo || framework_failure_
  27 ln -s foo slink || framework_failure_
  28 ln -s no-such-file no-file || framework_failure_
  29
  30
  31 # This would fail in 4.1.5, not in 4.1.6.
  32 cp -r no-file junk 2>/dev/null || fail=1
  33
  34 cp -r slink bar 2>/dev/null || fail=1
  35 set x $(ls -l bar); shift; mode=$1
  36 case $mode in
  37   l*) ;;
  38   *) fail=1;;
  39 esac
  40
  41 Exit $fail