Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 21:50:44 -0500 From: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: minor `cp -R` question Message-ID: <1072493444.259.47.camel@compass> In-Reply-To: <44zndhabyx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <1072232103.93831.19.camel@compass> <44zndhabyx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 21:05, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > 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. Thanks Lowell. I looked at cvsweb and their have been some changes since 4.9. Tom
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