Re: bug in copy-directory

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:13 PM, Thierry Volpiatto
<address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> Isn't the semantics of "cp" broken + undescribed?
> No

Yes ;-)

>> I had a directory x1, but no x2. Doing
>>
>>   cp -r x1 x2
>>
>> works as I expect it to, i.e. x1 and x2 are identical.
>>
>> However after a second
>>
>>   cp -r x1 x2
>>
>> there is suddenly a directory x1 inside x2.
> That's what is expected, imagine with what you expect, x2 is your home
> directory or /etc, and you copy x1 to it by error...

So? The urge to copy?

>> I really dislike this kind of context specific semantics that is both
>> unintuitive and undescribed.
> cp have a nice man page, you should read it.

I do not have it on w32. Just the output from cp --help and it does
not describe this behaviour.