Allow copying a file over the top of a symbolic link

When a symbolic link exists at the destination path when copying a file,
the symbolic link has to be manually deleted first else the copy will
fail.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/operations/cp.rs b/src/operations/cp.rs
index 6037b67..1e5ab2e 100644
--- a/src/operations/cp.rs
+++ b/src/operations/cp.rs
@@ -45,6 +45,12 @@ pub fn copy(source_path: impl AsRef<Path>, destination_path: impl AsRef<Path>) -
 fn copy_file(source_path: impl AsRef<Path>, destination_path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> WriteResult<()> {
     // Only copy file if size or last modified time is different to file at destination.
     if let Comparison::Different(last_modified) = compare_files(&source_path, &destination_path) {
+        // If existing file is a symlink, delete the link first else the copy will fail.
+        if let Ok(metadata) = destination_path.as_ref().symlink_metadata() {
+            if metadata.is_symlink() {
+                let _ = remove_file(&destination_path);
+            }
+        };
         let copy_result = std::fs::copy(&source_path, &destination_path);
         io_result_to_write_result(copy_result, &destination_path.as_ref())?;
         if let Some(time) = last_modified {