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Date:      Thu, 5 Apr 2012 16:15:07 +0200
From:      Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   order of source_dirs in cp(1)
Message-ID:  <20120405141506.GA49845@tiny>

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Hello,

I was doing

$ cp -Rv 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 2 /mnt/osm

and was surprised seeing that source_dir 17 was done before 16; the man
page does not specify the order, but I was thinking it just goes through
the list in the given order...

Why this is done this way?

Thanks

	matthias
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UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5



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