Oct. 3, 2007
12:05 a.m.
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007, Greg Ewing wrote:
Aahz wrote:
cp -a foo bar
and
cp -a foo/ bar
The two are almost identical *except* when foo is a symlink to a directory,
Hm. I would call this a misfeature of the version of cp you're using.
In Unix, a trailing slash is *never* supposed to be significant.
Well, it often is. See e.g. man rsync. -- Aahz (aahz@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ The best way to get information on Usenet is not to ask a question, but to post the wrong information.