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Merge pull request #30130 from ijc25/clarify-cp-docs
Clarify `cp` documentation behaviour with trailing "/."
(cherry picked from commit 8b7ba17d33d6af5fda28e86f2aa357be493f2cb8)
Signed-off-by: Sebastiaan van Stijn <github@gone.nl>
Vincent Demeester authored on 2017/01/14 00:16:03Showing 2 changed files
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@@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ argument of `DEST_PATH`, the behavior is as follows: |
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- `DEST_PATH` exists and is a file |
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- Error condition: cannot copy a directory to a file |
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- `DEST_PATH` exists and is a directory |
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- - `SRC_PATH` does not end with `/.` |
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+ - `SRC_PATH` does not end with `/.` (that is: _slash_ followed by _dot_) |
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- the source directory is copied into this directory |
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- - `SRC_PATH` does end with `/.` |
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+ - `SRC_PATH` does end with `/.` (that is: _slash_ followed by _dot_) |
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- the *content* of the source directory is copied into this |
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directory |
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@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ argument of `DEST_PATH`, the behavior is as follows: |
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- `DEST_PATH` exists and is a file |
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- Error condition: cannot copy a directory to a file |
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- `DEST_PATH` exists and is a directory |
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- - `SRC_PATH` does not end with `/.` |
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+ - `SRC_PATH` does not end with `/.` (that is: _slash_ followed by _dot_) |
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- the source directory is copied into this directory |
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- - `SRC_PATH` does end with `/.` |
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+ - `SRC_PATH` does end with `/.` (that is: _slash_ followed by _dot_) |
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- the *content* of the source directory is copied into this |
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directory |
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