#1892 closed defect (fixed)

document what 'tahoe cp' does with trailing slashes

Reported by: davidsarah Owned by: warner
Priority: normal Milestone: 1.10.1
Component: documentation Version: 1.9.2
Keywords: tahoe-cp docs usability paths Cc:
Launchpad Bug:

Description (last modified by daira)

The --help text for tahoe cp says:

... Arguments should probably not have trailing slashes.
'tahoe cp' does not behave as much like /bin/cp as you
would wish, especially with respect to trailing slashes.

But this doesn't tell me how tahoe cp behaves with trailing slashes, and I also don't know how /bin/cp behaves with trailing slashes, so I don't know whether that is the behaviour I would want.

I looked at man cp on Linux to see how it documented cp's behaviour with trailing slashes, and it didn't say, apart from documenting this option:

   --strip-trailing-slashes
          remove any trailing slashes from each SOURCE argument

Change History (5)

comment:1 Changed at 2012-12-13T16:36:54Z by marlowe

This covers the behaviour of the trailing slashes.

http://tongtao.com/blog/?p=386 [broken link]

Last edited at 2015-05-11T13:06:11Z by daira (previous) (diff)

comment:2 Changed at 2015-05-11T13:05:26Z by daira

  • Description modified (diff)
  • Milestone changed from undecided to 1.10.1
  • Owner marlowe deleted

comment:3 Changed at 2015-05-11T14:12:25Z by daira

Is this sufficiently documented by docs/frontends/CLI.rst@aa65426a line 461 ("Trailing slashes indicate directories, but are not required.")?

comment:4 Changed at 2015-05-13T14:42:27Z by daira

  • Owner set to warner

comment:5 Changed at 2015-05-19T04:31:21Z by warner

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

I think so, yeah.

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