On 24/01/07, Stevan Tiefert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Am Mittwoch, 24. Januar 2007 12:50 schrieb Peter Ankerstål:
> > Sure, just don't copy directories into themselves
> > recursively.
>
> How hard could it be to make cp avoid this problem?
> GNU cp does not have any problems with this action.
Am Mittwoch, 24. Januar 2007 12:50 schrieb Peter Ankerstål:
> > Sure, just don't copy directories into themselves
> > recursively.
>
> How hard could it be to make cp avoid this problem?
> GNU cp does not have any problems with this action.
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Sure, just don't copy directories into themselves
recursively.
How hard could it be to make cp avoid this problem?
GNU cp does not have any problems with this action.
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On 1/24/07, Peter Ankerstål <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> cd test/
> mkdir foo
> touch bar
> cp -r * foo/
cp:
name too long (not copied)
cp:
name too long (not copied)
It seems FreeBSD cp tries to copy the directory to infinity. Is there an
option to avoid this?
Sure, just don't copy dir
