Conference hydra::axp-developer

3393.0. "Bridgeway Corporation" by HYDRA::AXPDEVELOPER (Alpha Developer support) Tue Mar 25 1997 03:01

    Company Name :  Bridgeway Corporation
    Contact Name :  Daphne Kelly
    Phone        :  206-881-4270
    Fax          :  206-861-1774
    Email        :  [email protected]
    Date/Time in :  25-MAR-1997 03:00:23
    Entered by   :  John Wood
    SPE center   :  REO

    Category     :  unix
    OS Version   :  
    System H/W   :  


    Brief Description of Problem:
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From:	SMTP%"[email protected]" 24-MAR-1997 20:16:13.59
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CC:	[email protected], [email protected],        Karen Hensley <[email protected]>
Subj:	Copy Command Under OSF1 vs. other UNIX

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From: Daphne Kelly <[email protected]>
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Subject: Copy Command Under OSF1 vs. other UNIX
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Hi,

We have noticed a difference in the result of the copy command between
OSF1 UNIX and other UNIX versions.

When performing   cp -r ~dir1-name/dir2-name/ <current-directory>   the
result under OSF1 v3.2 is that dir2-name does not get copied.  All of the
files and directories (including the dot (.) files) under dir2-name, get
copied into the current directory.

With our other UNIX versions (Solaris 2.x, HP-UX 9x and 10x, AIX 1.4.0,
and UNIX_SV 4.0), dir2-name is copied into the current directory and
within it, all of its files.

The following is an example:

	cd /tmp
	cp -r ~dkelly/main_dir/ .

          			|	Solaris 2.x, AIX 1.4.0,
           D.E.C. OSF1		|	HP-UX 9.x & 10.x, UNIX_SV 4.0
________________________________|____________________________________
      /tmp			|	/tmp
	 .test_under_main	|	   /main_dir
	 /subA_dir		|	       .test_under_main
	    .subA_dot		|	       /subA_dir
	    subA_doc1		|	          .subA_dot
	    subA_doc2		|		  subA_doc1
	 /subB_dir		|		  subA_doc2
	    .subB_dot		|	       /subB_dir
	    subB_doc1		|		  .subB_dot
	    subB_doc2		|		  subB_doc1
	etc...  		|	       etc...
				|
The directory main_dir was not	| This copied main_dir in /tmp and
copied into /tmp.The directories| copied everything into it, including
subA_dir, subB_dir, & subC_dir	| all of the dot (.) files.
were copied directly under /tmp.| 
All files, including the dot (.)|
files, were copied.		|

Bye, Daphne

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Daphne Kelly	                      [email protected] 
Bridgeway Corporation                 Web: http//www.bridgeway.com
Bridging the Gap in Network Mgt.      206-881-4270 206-861-1774 fax
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Date:	26-MAR-1997 08:50:17.37
From:	DEC:.REO.REOVTX::WOOD_J       "[email protected]"
Subj:	RE: mail to alpha-developer re. "cp -r"
To:	SMTP%"[email protected]"

Daphne,

re. "cp -r' behaviour difference on Digital UNIX

I have raised a QAR (quality assurance report) for this
problem, #52182.

I will let you know when I get a response, though it might be
a week or two.

I assume that you can work around it for now by removing the
trailing "\" from the source-directory.

Regards,
  John Wood

From: [email protected] ([email protected])
To: [email protected]

Hello Daphne,

re. a problem you reported last month about different behaviour
of "cp -r" with "dir" and "dir/":

This fix is scheduled to be in the v4.next release of Digital UNIX.
Currently this release is likely to be called v4.2, and won't be 
available for probably 6 months or so. 

regards,
  John Wood