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Subject: minor `cp -R` question
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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.