On Tue 26 Sep 2000 at 08:48:58 +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
> The same applies to "cp foo bar/": if the semantics of the trailing
> "/" are dropped, then the safeguard in the above is lost and totally
> irrecoverably so.  

You can always do cp foo bar/. . Slightly more typing work, but it makes
explicit what you want.

-Olaf.
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