Re: Help with command - cp

["Felix C. Stegerman" <flx@obfusk.org>]

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On 2014-01-26 23:24, Mathias Bauer wrote:
> * Mr Smiley wrote on 2014-01-26 at 20:56 (+0000):
> 
>>> cp -Rp /path/to/sourcedir/A/* /path/to/destinationdir/B
>> 
>> If you don't put a / after B it will copy all files to a file 
>> called B
> 
> No, obviously not.
> 
> $ mkdir src $ echo foo > src/file1 $ echo bar > src/file2 $ echo
> baz > src/.hidden1 $ [ -e ./target ] || echo "./target not found!" 
> ./target not found! $ cp -Rp ./src/* ./target cp: target `./target'
> is not a directory $ cp -Rp ./src/* ./target/ cp: target
> `./target/' is not a directory $ [ -e ./target ] || echo "./target
> not found!" ./target not found!

It does if there's only one file in A and B does not exist.

  $ mkdir A; echo HI >> A/foo
  $ cp -a A/* B
  $ cat B
  HI

> [...] Regards, Mathias


- - Felix

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