On 121020 12:35, Eric Blake wrote:
On 10/20/2012 12:50 PM, Lawrence Mayer wrote:
Cp can't hardlink unqualified wildcard
cp -l * DIRECTORY
fails with error 'cp: target `file' is not a directory'
Most likely, this is not an error in cp, but a misunderstanding on your
part about how globbing operates. I bet you have a file in your current
directory whose name starts with '-', and is thus being treated as an
option by cp.
Wrong guess. No file starting with '-'.
Larry
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