minor `cp -R` question

[Lowell Gilbert]

Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org> writes:

> Hi, I have a quick question about the cp command and recursively copying
> a directory.  If I type:
> 
> $ cp -R /foo/file/ ~/
> 
> I get in my home directory a file called "file".  If I type:
> 
> $ cp -R /foo/file ~/
> 
> I get in my home directory a directory called "foo" and a file called
> "file".  Can someone explain why the trailing slash cp to behave
> differently?  
> 
> My user shell is pdksh and the root shell is csh.  I have pdksh set to
> use "complete-list" and csh to use "autolist".  Is this behavior just
> something unique to FreeBSD?  I tried the same on my OpenBSD box and the
> two commands worked the same and created a directory with a file in it. 
> I also don't remember these working differently on linux.  Do I possibly
> have something setup wrong with my shells?  Thanks.

I can't reproduce this under any shell, including pdksh.
I'm running -STABLE (and have the pdksh port) as of last Sunday.

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