Date: 24 Dec 2003 21:05:26 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: minor `cp -R` question Message-ID: <44zndhabyx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <1072232103.93831.19.camel@compass> References: <1072232103.93831.19.camel@compass>
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Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> writes: > 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. I can't reproduce this under any shell, including pdksh. I'm running -STABLE (and have the pdksh port) as of last Sunday. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password "public"
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