Re: order of source_dirs in cp(1)

On Thu Apr 5 12, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > I was doing > > $ cp -Rv 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 2 /mnt/osm > > and was surprised seeing that source_dir 17 was done before 16; the man > page does not specify the order, but I was thinking it just goes through > the list in the given order

order of source_dirs in cp(1)

Hello, I was doing $ cp -Rv 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 2 /mnt/osm and was surprised seeing that source_dir 17 was done before 16; the man page does not specify the order, but I was thinking it just goes through the list in the given order... Why this is done this way? Thanks matthias --