cp foo{,.bak} not always supported

[Gilles Espinasse]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Moffat" <ken at linuxfromscratch.org>
To: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <lfs-dev at linuxfromscratch.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 5:06 PM
Subject: Re: cp foo{,.bak} not always supported


> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 02:52:30PM +0200, Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> > It has been reported on ipcop-devel list that  cp foo{,.bak}
contruction is
> > broken on Ubuntu-8.04
> >
> > This was on expect instructions
> >
> > cp configure{,.bak}
> > cp: missing destination file operand after `configure{,.bak}'
> > Try `cp --help' for more information.
> >
...
> >
>  Or just require people to use a sane shell ?
>
This was just to inform.
You could require what you desire.

For me, less requirement is better so we will adapt our scripts.
I do not imagine I could make Ubuntu change something just to let IPCop
compile ;-)

Gilles