From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 10 8:23:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from icomag.de (ns.icomag.de [195.227.115.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DF4D37B400 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 08:23:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (bgd@localhost) by icomag.de (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g3AFLlu83156 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:21:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bgd@icomag.de) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:21:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Bogdan TARU X-X-Sender: To: Subject: Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20020410171808.K82564-100000@fw.cgn.icom> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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? bogdan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message