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cp -R and copying contents vs. copying directory

Submitted by mlsamuelson on Thu, 09/17/2009 - 09:16

cp -R foo/ faa

copy contents of tmp directory to another_tmp directory
resulting path: /faa/[foo's files]

cp -r foo faa

copy directory foo into directory faa
resulting path: faa/foo/[foo's files]

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