Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 17:21:47 +0200 (CEST) From: Bogdan TARU <bgd@icomag.de> To: <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 'rm' incompatibility with Posix.2 Message-ID: <20020410171808.K82564-100000@fw.cgn.icom> In-Reply-To: <xzpzo0bvbdv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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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
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