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cp incorrectly generating "cannot copy cyclic symbolic link errors"
From: |
Robert Schultheis |
Subject: |
cp incorrectly generating "cannot copy cyclic symbolic link errors" |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Jul 2004 13:45:48 -0400 |
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I have discovered a bug in cp (fileutils) 4.1, and I am wondering if it
has been fixed in later versions so I can notify our admins to upgrade
our core-utils which is something I can not do myself , however I will
need a dang good reason for them to do it.
I am running on Win2000 with SP4 which is likely a contributing factor.
I am trying to recursively copy a directory into another directory.
There are no symbolically linked files with the source directory. The
copy fails with this set of messages:
cp: cannot copy cyclic symbolic link `ts/yo/yo'
The exact command I typed is this:
cp -rv ts/* ts2
The exact output is this:
`ts/yo' -> `ts2/yo'
cp: cannot copy cyclic symbolic link `ts/yo/yo'
My directory structure is this:
ts
|-yo
|-yo
|-p.txt
ts2 - empty directory
The bug will happen any time I attempt a recursive copy of a directory
with at least 2 levels of sub-directory there-in.
I can't seem to find anything about this issue within this archives of
this mailing list, does anyone have any idea if this issue is known
and/or has it been fixed in a later version?
Thanks,
Rob Schultheis
address@hidden
Recognition Research Inc.
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