Hi Lukasz,
The only reason to treat /dev/null differently is because you really can't
remove it. It's a special system file and because it is special many
people think it should be treated as such. So, the -f flag is sort of
strange in this particular case.
Andy
On Thu, 3 Sep 2015, Lukasz Janyst wrote:
> `xrdcp` warns you if you overwrite existing files. `/dev/null` is not a directory, it is a file that happens to represent a character device that will accept an infinite amount of data, the same as `/dev/sda1` is a file representing a block device - the first partition of your SCSI disk. I don't see why `/dev/null` should be treated any different than other files.
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