On Wednesday 10 April 2002 11:21 am, Bogdan TARU wrote:
|  As well:
|
| bgd@web$ mkdir temp
| bgd@web$ touch temp/a
| bgd@web$ mkdir temp2
| bgd@web$ cp -R temp/ temp2/
| bgd@web$ ls -al temp2/
| total 3
| drwxr-xr-x   2 bgd  wheel   512 Apr 10 17:20 .
| drwxr-xr-x  14 bgd  wheel  2048 Apr 10 17:20 ..
| -rw-r--r--   1 bgd  wheel     0 Apr 10 17:20 a
|
|  If ending a symlink with a slash is supposed to mean 'refer to the
| directory it points to', I imagine ending a directory with a slash is even
| more so. Then why, oh, why, 'cp -R' copies only the content of the
| directory in the new location????
|
|  man cp:
|
|  -R    If source_file designates a directory, cp copies the directory and
|        the entire subtree connected at that point.
|
|  Why do I have the feeling something goes terribly wrong here?


That *would* seem to fly in the face of the previously-cited posix2 
requirement.

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|  bogdan
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