Dragan Simic <dsimic@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > A quite similar ambiguity exists in cp(1) in mv(1), which is also > resolved by the use of the trailing slash character. However, I've > encountered only one person aware of that disambiguation, and in cp(1) > only, but in the "I always include the trailing slash" way, without > actually understanding it fully. Maybe I need to encounter more > people, I don't know. If the majority of (perhaps new) users you already know find such disambiguation method unfamiliar, that already is a good anecdata without any need for you to meet more people to tell us that it is not a very easy-to-understand thing for them, no?
