On 09/15/2011 01:32 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi Jim, > > I would ask you again to reconsider your view on this issue because it is > irrational.
Reading back over the thread, I think it's a usage error. Note that cp does not process the wildcard, so that when you do: cp -x /* what cp is really getting from the shell is: cp -x /dir1 /dir2 ... cp is right to treat each of those independently. cheers, Pádraig.
