On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 
>   I think the utterly portable solution is "cp file dir/." to be
> certain.

Works properly on the Solaris 2.5 box I have access to.

$ cp dead.letter d/.
cp: cannot create d/.: No such file or directory

Whereas 
$ cp dead.letter d/

creates a file called "d".

Thanks.  One more for the bag-o-tricks.

-Kurt



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