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Subject: Re: [9fans] dumb question
From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 09:20:55 -0400
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> Perhaps someone could explain why cp doesn't work recursively (without
> an option) when given a directory as a first argument.

Because running cp that way would probably happen more often by mistake
than by intention, and it could damage a lot of files very fast before the
user noticed.

-rob