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 -- Matthias Apitz e <guru@unixarea.de> - w http://www.unixarea.de/ UNIX since V7 on PDP-11, UNIX on mainframe since ESER 1055 (IBM /370) UNIX on x86 since SVR4.2 UnixWare 2.1.2, FreeBSD since 2.2.5
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