Re: minor `cp -R` question
On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 21:05, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Tom McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have a quick question about the cp command and recursively copying a directory. If I type: $ cp -R /foo/file/ ~/ I get in my home directory a file called file. If I type: $ cp -R /foo/file ~/ I get in my home directory a directory called foo and a file called file. Can someone explain why the trailing slash cp to behave differently? My user shell is pdksh and the root shell is csh. I have pdksh set to use complete-list and csh to use autolist. Is this behavior just something unique to FreeBSD? I tried the same on my OpenBSD box and the two commands worked the same and created a directory with a file in it. I also don't remember these working differently on linux. Do I possibly have something setup wrong with my shells? Thanks. I can't reproduce this under any shell, including pdksh. I'm running -STABLE (and have the pdksh port) as of last Sunday. Thanks Lowell. I looked at cvsweb and their have been some changes since 4.9. Tom ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: minor `cp -R` question
Tom McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have a quick question about the cp command and recursively copying a directory. If I type: $ cp -R /foo/file/ ~/ I get in my home directory a file called file. If I type: $ cp -R /foo/file ~/ I get in my home directory a directory called foo and a file called file. Can someone explain why the trailing slash cp to behave differently? My user shell is pdksh and the root shell is csh. I have pdksh set to use complete-list and csh to use autolist. Is this behavior just something unique to FreeBSD? I tried the same on my OpenBSD box and the two commands worked the same and created a directory with a file in it. I also don't remember these working differently on linux. Do I possibly have something setup wrong with my shells? Thanks. I can't reproduce this under any shell, including pdksh. I'm running -STABLE (and have the pdksh port) as of last Sunday. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password public ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
minor `cp -R` question
Hi, I have a quick question about the cp command and recursively copying a directory. If I type: $ cp -R /foo/file/ ~/ I get in my home directory a file called file. If I type: $ cp -R /foo/file ~/ I get in my home directory a directory called foo and a file called file. Can someone explain why the trailing slash cp to behave differently? My user shell is pdksh and the root shell is csh. I have pdksh set to use complete-list and csh to use autolist. Is this behavior just something unique to FreeBSD? I tried the same on my OpenBSD box and the two commands worked the same and created a directory with a file in it. I also don't remember these working differently on linux. Do I possibly have something setup wrong with my shells? Thanks. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
