On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 05:57:00PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue,29.Dec.09, 00:25:06, Osamu Aoki wrote: ... > > $ cd /path/to/source ; cp -a ./ destination/ > > > > This does trick since adding ./ after destination/ is still destination/ :-) > > Why is this better than 'cd /path/to/source ; cp -a . destination' ? Same... I overlooked that line in your post.