A request for cp flag

[Manish Jain]

Hi,

I am using FreeBSD 10.3 amd64 with bash as the login shell.

I occasionally face a problem while copying contents with cp. The -R 
flag of cp takes the source name as this : If the source_file ends in a 
/, the contents of the directory are copied rather than the directory 
itself.

Now, I am pretty sure, there must be good reasons for cp to behave in 
that manner by default. But it also creates significant opportunities 
for things to go wrong the way shell completion of directory names works.

Could it considered a valid request that an extra flag (perhaps -r) be 
implemented that does the reverse : copy out src rather than src/* ?

Thanks
Manish Jain