Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:39:49 -0700 From: Walt Pawley <walt@wump.org> To: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <ulrich@pukruppa.net>, Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> Cc: Alexander Best <alexbestms@math.uni-muenster.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: mkisofs and directories Message-ID: <p06240808c60bd9e736b5@[10.0.0.10]> In-Reply-To: <1239806894.86545.12.camel@pukruppa.net> References: <permail-2009041422182680e26a0b00004c0e-a_best01@message-id.un i-muenster.de> <ade45ae90904142222r540e449ctb33b3077b822c08a@mail.gmail.com> <1239806894.86545.12.camel@pukruppa.net>
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At 4:48 PM +0200 4/15/09, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote:
>> unix naming convention normally dictates the following:
>> cp -r /cdrom/dir /mnt/
>> # will create /mnt/dir and everything under it
>> cp -r /cdrom/dir/ /mnt/
>> # will copy contents of dir into /mnt
>That was what I thought it should do - but it doesn't!
I'm pretty certain "cp" doesn't care about the trailing slash
and hasn't. OTOH, you could use "rsync" which does change its
behavior depending on the trailing slash.
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