Cp can't hardlink unqualified wildcard
Lawrence Mayer
lawmaya@gmx.com
Sat Oct 20 20:35:00 GMT 2012
On 121020 12:35, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/20/2012 12:50 PM, Lawrence Mayer wrote:
>> Cp can't hardlink unqualified wildcard
>>
>> cp -l * DIRECTORY
>>
>> fails with error 'cp: target `file' is not a directory'
>
> Most likely, this is not an error in cp, but a misunderstanding on your
> part about how globbing operates. I bet you have a file in your current
> directory whose name starts with '-', and is thus being treated as an
> option by cp.
Wrong guess. No file starting with '-'.
Larry
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