On 10/17/07, Rimi Bougard <rbougard@free.fr> wrote:
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> Hello everyboddy,
>
>    I have a (probably) stupid question... Please forgive me if she really
is.
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> I "discovered" today a strange thing:
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> $ 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
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> 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