Hello, two issues: 1) manpage of cp contains obsolete email-address for bug-reporting 2) cp inconsistency when copying a directory to a) a non existing directory, or b) to an existing directory. Further elaborated below.
cp -a SOME_DIR NOT_YET_EXISTING_DIR results in a new directory directly containing each entry of SOME_DIR while: CP -a SOME_DIR EXISTING_DIR results in EXISTING_DIR/SOME_DIR The first result seems to be a reasonable outcome in both cases. Appending "/" to the directory-names should lead to the same result. While appending "/." to the target-directory would change the meaning, and rather lead to the result of the observed second version. Kind regards, Thomas p.s. cp (GNU coreutils) 7.1
