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Possible bug in cp

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From: Chris Puttick <cputtick <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible bug in cp
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 15:49:43 +0100

Follow up, reproducing:

tested on openSuSE Factory

Do:

# mkdir test
# echo "this is file 1" > test/file1
# touch test/file2
# cp test/*
# cat test/file2

If there is a 3rd file in the directory you get an error:

"cp: target ‘test/file3’ is not a directory"



On 18 May 2015 at 14:04, Chris Puttick <cputtick <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> In moment of tiredness issued a cp command similar to
>
> cp /path/to/files/*
>
> neglecting to add a destination (should have been ./)
>
> The files in the directory were 2 vdisks both ending .qcow2.
>
> No error message was generated and the apparent result of running the
> command is that the file whose name came first alphabetically was
> copied over the other.
>
> The installed OS on the machine was Ubuntu 12.04 and cp version 7.4.
>
> I can provide more details on request.
>
> Regards
>
> Chris
>
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