In my old 6.x something, cp would just say
cp: cannot copy a directory, `dir', into itself, `dir/dir'
(it would still do it, but only once)
In 7.1 I get a result like this:
% timeout 1 cp -rl dir dir
% ls -R dir|wc -l
1063
Without the -l it still behaves properly.
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Mikael Magnusson
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Mikael Magnusson wrote:
> In my old 6.x something, cp would just say
> cp: cannot copy a directory, `dir', into itself, `dir/dir'
> (it would still do it, but only once)
> In 7.1 I get a result like this:
>
> % timeout 1 cp -rl dir dir
> % ls -R dir|wc -l
> 1063
>
> Without the -l it still behave