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Wed Sep 21 07:12:16 PDT 2011

So either using mv, or renaming some of the intermediate files to only have one dot in the name should work.

Tor Lillqvist wrote:
>> $ touch soffice.bin.exe
>> $ cp soffice.bin.exe soffice.bin
>> cp: cannot create regular file `soffice.bin': File exists
> mv, however, works...:
>
> $ touch soffice.bin.exe
> $ mv soffice.bin.exe soffice.bin
> $ ls -l soffice*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 tml None 0 Sep 21 17:50 soffice.bin
>
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      From my testing, it only seems to occur when there are 2 dots in
      the source file name.<br>
      So either using mv, or renaming some of the intermediate files to
      only have one dot in the name should work.<br>
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    Tor Lillqvist wrote:
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        <pre wrap="">$ touch soffice.bin.exe
$ cp soffice.bin.exe soffice.bin
cp: cannot create regular file `soffice.bin': File exists
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mv, however, works...:

$ touch soffice.bin.exe
$ mv soffice.bin.exe soffice.bin
$ ls -l soffice*
-rw-r--r-- 1 tml None 0 Sep 21 17:50 soffice.bin

--tml

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