On 10/17/07, Rimi Bougard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyboddy, > > I have a (probably) stupid question... Please forgive me if she really is. > I "discovered" today a strange thing: > > $ mkdir foo > $ cp -R foo foo > > I was waiting something like "cannot copy a directory into himself" or > something like that but in fact this command create a (infinite ? I don't know > because I stop the action before the end) tree, like this: > > /foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo/foo...
looks like a feature to me. ;) -B