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Bluefoxicyholy crap, cp -af is non-deterministic15:36
Bluefoxicycp -af foo/. bar/.15:36
Bluefoxicyif bar/qux/ is owned by your user and is r--r--r--, the FIRST run will try to copy foo/qux/baz.txt and FAIL.15:37
Bluefoxicyat that point, bar/qux/ has moved from (sorry, my fault) r-xr-xr-x to rwxr-xr-x15:37
Bluefoxicyyes, that's right:  cp -af changes the permissions on the directory, then fails.15:38
BluefoxicyIf you run the same command again, it will succed to make the replacement.15:38
Bluefoxicyenglish15:39
Bluefoxicywhatever.  You know what I'm talking about15:39
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