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From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: copying a directory to same level
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:36:35 +0400
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On Saturday 21 of August 2010 19:12:37 zzapper wrote:
> Hi
> (Hope this is not too dumb)
>=20
> I want to duplicate directory vim73 to vim
>=20
> >cp -r vim73 vim/
>=20
> if directory vim does not exist then it does what I want.
> However if vim/ already exists then vim73/ will be created as a
> sub-directory in vim/ eg vim/vim73
>=20
> Can you explain this behaviour

This is how cp command works and is unrelated to shell.

> and how can I force it duplicate to
> same level regardless of whether directory exists

GNU cp has -T option that does exactly what you want.

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