On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 3:11 AM, slash mais <[email protected]> wrote: > The command: > cp -r -P --preserve=all --strip-trailing-slashes --backup=numbered > "/source-dir/source-file" "/source-dir/" > returns: > cp: ‘/source-dir/source-file’ and ‘/source-dir/source-file’ are the > same file > > This result is wrong because '--backup' has been specified, and 'cp' > should do the backup and copy actions regardless in this case.
If you really want to do that, you must also specify the -f (--force) option.
