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		Copy command recursively copies itself `cp -r [dot] src dst` (twitter.com/_diginova)
		3 points by diginova 5 months ago \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

diginova 5 months ago [–]

is this a well known behaviour and should the command not execute if any recursion exists

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