Bogdan TARU wrote:
>  If ending a symlink with a slash is supposed to mean 'refer to the
> directory it points to', I imagine ending a directory with a slash is even
> more so. Then why, oh, why, 'cp -R' copies only the content of the
> directory in the new location????
> 
>  man cp:
> 
>  -R    If source_file designates a directory, cp copies the directory and
>        the entire subtree connected at that point.
> 
>  Why do I have the feeling something goes terribly wrong here?

A blank path component implies ".".  It always has in BSD.

There are man pages to this effect (though you will have to zgrep
for them yourself).

-- Terry

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