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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