Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:20:55 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2 Message-ID: <3CB4BAC7.450246A4@mindspring.com> References: <20020410171808.K82564-100000@fw.cgn.icom>
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Bogdan TARU wrote: > 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? A blank path component implies ".". It always has in BSD. There are man pages to this effect (though you will have to zgrep for them yourself). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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