Unexpected cp behaviour with directories

[brendandahl]

With unix cp you can do

cp -Rf oneDir/ twoDir/

which copies all the files in oneDir into twoDir. When I do:

cp('-Rf', 'oneDir/', '/twoDir/');

nothing gets copied, I have to do

cp('-Rf', 'oneDir/*', '/twoDir/');

from man cp

If source_file designates a directory, cp copies the directory and the entire subtree connected
at that point. If the source_file ends in a /, the contents of the directory are copied rather
than the directory itself.

[arturadib]

sounds like a bug indeed, will look into this soon, thanks Brendan.

[can3p]

I still have the problems with cp function. Consider directory structure like this:
root/

• dir1/
  • lib/
    • main.js

Work directory is root, and I try to copy dir1 to dir2

$ node

require('shelljs/global')
{}
cp('-R', 'dir1/*', 'dir2/')
shell.js: internal error
Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory 'dir2//lib'
at Object.fs.mkdirSync (fs.js:483:18)
at app/node_modules/shelljs/shell.js:306:14
at Array.forEach (native)
at _cp (app/node_modules/shelljs/shell.js:288:11)
at app/node_modules/shelljs/shell.js:1103:23
at repl:1:2
at REPLServer.self.eval (repl.js:111:21)
at Interface. (repl.js:250:12)
at Interface.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:93:17)
at Interface._onLine (readline.js:199:10)

$ node

require('shelljs/global')
{}
cp('-Rf', 'dir1/*', 'dir2/')
shell.js: internal error
Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory 'dir2//lib'
at Object.fs.mkdirSync (fs.js:483:18)
at app/node_modules/shelljs/shell.js:306:14
at Array.forEach (native)
at _cp (app/node_modules/shelljs/shell.js:288:11)
at app/node_modules/shelljs/shell.js:1103:23
at repl:1:2
at REPLServer.self.eval (repl.js:111:21)
at Interface. (repl.js:250:12)
at Interface.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:93:17)
at Interface._onLine (readline.js:199:10)

I'm using node 0.8.12 on Mac OS X 10.7.5, shelljs version is 0.0.8

[arturadib]

@can3p sorry, I can't reproduce the problem. is it still happening?

[arturadib]

@can3p if it is, can you please open a separate issue as the error is different from the original one here? thanks!