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On 10/20/2012 12:50 PM, Lawrence Mayer wrote:Cp can't hardlink unqualified wildcard
cp -l * DIRECTORY
fails with error 'cp: target `file' is not a directory'
Most likely, this is not an error in cp, but a misunderstanding on your part about how globbing operates. I bet you have a file in your current directory whose name starts with '-', and is thus being treated as an option by cp.
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