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Re: Problem with cp to a directory
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 19:19:43 -0500
- Subject: Re: Problem with cp to a directory
- References: <200211072211.gA7MBqw04491@mx1.redhat.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 10:36:57PM +0000, peter.coppens2@pandora.be wrote:
>Hello,
>
>While attempting to port a number of scripts from MKS to the latest cygwin download, something like
>
>cp c:\\temp\\tmt.c tcp
>
>is executed (tcp is a directory).
>
>This returns
>
>cp: cannot create regular file `tcp/c:\\temp\\tmt.c': No such file or directory
>
>When using a target file or Unix style paths, it all works fine.
>
>Is this a known issue or intended behavior? Thanks for any suggestions.
It's not a problem. It's a feature. This is Cygwin. Cygwin uses UNIX
style paths. Use UNIX style paths if you want to use UNIX tools:
cp /cygdrive/c/temp/tmt.c tcp
cgf
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