Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 21:15:04 -0500 From: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: minor `cp -R` question Message-ID: <1072232103.93831.19.camel@compass>
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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.
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