On 1/24/07, Peter Ankerstål <peter at pean.org> wrote: > > cd test/ > > mkdir foo > > touch bar > > cp -r * foo/ > cp: > > name too long (not copied) > cp: > > name too long (not copied) > > > It seems FreeBSD cp tries to copy the directory to infinity. Is there an > option to avoid this? Sure, just don't copy directories into themselves recursively.