On Sun, 2014-01-26 at 23:24 +0100, Mathias Bauer wrote: > If the target directory *exists* the trailing slash will *not* be > necessary
On Mon, 2014-01-27 at 12:44 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > and yet there is the advantage of training the fingers Using the tab-key a / is automatically attached. $ cp Do + tab-key = $ cp Downloads/ $ cp Downloads/ De + tab-key = $ cp Downloads/ Desktop/ I only would remove a /, if there is a reason to do so. IOW depending to what I want, I would run $ cp Downloads/* Desktop/ $ cp -r Downloads/ Desktop/ just because I use the tab-key. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1390801738.688.6.camel@archlinux
