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bug#24958: Please make "omitting directory" message clearer


From: Samuel Thibault
Subject: bug#24958: Please make "omitting directory" message clearer
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2016 01:44:56 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21+34 (58baf7c9f32f) (2010-12-30)

Hello,

Every year, my students are completely taken aback when trying to copy a
directory:

$ cp /foo/bar .
omitting directory /foo/bar

The problem is that the error message is not explicit at all about what
issue cp actually encountered: "yes it is a directory, so what?!"

Could this be changed into for instance:

$ cp /foo/bar .
not recursing into directory /foo/bar by default

which will help them figure out they just need to use -r.

Samuel





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