On 18/05/15 15:49, Chris Puttick wrote: > Follow up, reproducing: > > tested on openSuSE Factory > > Do: > > # mkdir test > # echo "this is file 1" > test/file1 > # touch test/file2 > # cp test/* > # cat test/file2 > > If there is a 3rd file in the directory you get an error: > > "cp: target ‘test/file3’ is not a directory"
Note you can prompt before overwriting existing files like: cp -i file1 file2 cheers, Pádraig
