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Cp can't hardlink unqualified wildcard
- From: "Lawrence Mayer" <lawmaya at gmx dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:50:53 +0200
- Subject: Cp can't hardlink unqualified wildcard
Cp can't hardlink unqualified wildcard
cp -l * DIRECTORY
fails with error 'cp: target `file' is not a directory'
But the equivalent
cp -l ./* DIRECTORY
AND
cp -l PATH OF WORKING DIRECTORY/* DIRECTORY
both appear to work fine.
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