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From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
To: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
Cc: 70792@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#70792: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Add Eshell support for expanding absolute file names within the current remote connection
Date: Mon, 6 May 2024 11:37:06 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3940954c-a0e7-e10c-2291-9c9392dda37f@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb5d7849-9aa4-665d-a34e-4d60243f78b5@gmail.com>

On 5/6/2024 11:28 AM, Jim Porter wrote:
> Yes, but this breaks in non-obvious ways if Eshell's "cp" implementation 
> falls back to the external program. For example, today:
> 
>    ~ $ cp file /ssh:remote:~/file    # copies "file" to a remote host
>    ~ $ cp -b file /ssh:remote:~/file
>    /usr/bin/cp: cannot create regular file '/ssh:remote:~/file': No such
>    file or directory
> 
> Or the second line might work if you get unlucky, or pass --parents, or...

By "work" here, I mean, "cp will copy the file, but to a place you 
likely didn't intend."





  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-06 18:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-05 20:58 bug#70792: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Add Eshell support for expanding absolute file names within the current remote connection Jim Porter
2024-05-06 11:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-06 18:13   ` Jim Porter
2024-05-06 18:43     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-06 20:05       ` Jim Porter
2024-05-07  2:01         ` Jim Porter
2024-05-07 11:55         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-07 18:54           ` Jim Porter
2024-05-08 13:20             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-08 16:13               ` Jim Porter
2024-05-08 18:32                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-08 18:57                   ` Jim Porter
2024-05-09 18:14                   ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-09 18:53                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-09 19:10                       ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-09 20:30                         ` Jim Porter
2024-05-09 22:15                           ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-09 22:28                             ` Jim Porter
2024-05-10  5:45                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-10 19:35                             ` Jim Porter
2024-05-13  7:39                               ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-16  2:12                                 ` Jim Porter
2024-05-08 18:17               ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-08 18:49                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-09 18:22                   ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-09 19:02                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-07  8:12       ` Michael Albinus via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-06 16:56 ` Sean Whitton via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-05-06 17:59   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-05-06 18:28   ` Jim Porter
2024-05-06 18:37     ` Jim Porter [this message]
2024-05-07  8:50     ` Sean Whitton via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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