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Why is the `cp` command giving me “will not create hard link” messages when I never asked it to create links?



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I recently ran the command cp --update --verbose -r ./* "E:Backup m.d.y" and now I am seeing messages like this appear:




cp: will not create hard link `E:Backup m.d.y/Python
Programs/PracticalTheoremProverSite/ptp-site/node_modules/memory-fs/node_modules/readable-stream/doc/wg-meetings'
to directory `E:Backup
m.d.y/CS189/Code/final-project/.git/objects/89'




Why is the copy command printing messages like this? What do these two locations even have to do with one another?










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  • Which shell are you using? Bash doesn't use E:Backup and PowerShell doesn't have things like verbose

    – phuclv
    22 hours ago











  • Command Prompt is what I'm using

    – Pro Q
    4 hours ago











  • no, there's no cp in cmd, unless you put cygwin's path into your path. But even in that case cp is a Unix tool and it won't accept a Windows path like E:Backup

    – phuclv
    2 hours ago













  • Oh, so this is some weird thing that only magically happens to work probably because I have the Windows Subsystem for Linux installed on my machine, and somehow that allows me to use the command in Command Prompt? Weird...

    – Pro Q
    2 hours ago






  • 1





    of course it'll work but not as you expected. E:Backup m.d.y is a file named exactly like that in the current directory, because : is a valid character in Unix file names, and B is some invalid escape which will be treated as literal B, and is also valid in file names in Unix

    – phuclv
    2 hours ago




















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I recently ran the command cp --update --verbose -r ./* "E:Backup m.d.y" and now I am seeing messages like this appear:




cp: will not create hard link `E:Backup m.d.y/Python
Programs/PracticalTheoremProverSite/ptp-site/node_modules/memory-fs/node_modules/readable-stream/doc/wg-meetings'
to directory `E:Backup
m.d.y/CS189/Code/final-project/.git/objects/89'




Why is the copy command printing messages like this? What do these two locations even have to do with one another?










share|improve this question























  • Which shell are you using? Bash doesn't use E:Backup and PowerShell doesn't have things like verbose

    – phuclv
    22 hours ago











  • Command Prompt is what I'm using

    – Pro Q
    4 hours ago











  • no, there's no cp in cmd, unless you put cygwin's path into your path. But even in that case cp is a Unix tool and it won't accept a Windows path like E:Backup

    – phuclv
    2 hours ago













  • Oh, so this is some weird thing that only magically happens to work probably because I have the Windows Subsystem for Linux installed on my machine, and somehow that allows me to use the command in Command Prompt? Weird...

    – Pro Q
    2 hours ago






  • 1





    of course it'll work but not as you expected. E:Backup m.d.y is a file named exactly like that in the current directory, because : is a valid character in Unix file names, and B is some invalid escape which will be treated as literal B, and is also valid in file names in Unix

    – phuclv
    2 hours ago
















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I recently ran the command cp --update --verbose -r ./* "E:Backup m.d.y" and now I am seeing messages like this appear:




cp: will not create hard link `E:Backup m.d.y/Python
Programs/PracticalTheoremProverSite/ptp-site/node_modules/memory-fs/node_modules/readable-stream/doc/wg-meetings'
to directory `E:Backup
m.d.y/CS189/Code/final-project/.git/objects/89'




Why is the copy command printing messages like this? What do these two locations even have to do with one another?










share|improve this question














I recently ran the command cp --update --verbose -r ./* "E:Backup m.d.y" and now I am seeing messages like this appear:




cp: will not create hard link `E:Backup m.d.y/Python
Programs/PracticalTheoremProverSite/ptp-site/node_modules/memory-fs/node_modules/readable-stream/doc/wg-meetings'
to directory `E:Backup
m.d.y/CS189/Code/final-project/.git/objects/89'




Why is the copy command printing messages like this? What do these two locations even have to do with one another?







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  • Which shell are you using? Bash doesn't use E:Backup and PowerShell doesn't have things like verbose

    – phuclv
    22 hours ago











  • Command Prompt is what I'm using

    – Pro Q
    4 hours ago











  • no, there's no cp in cmd, unless you put cygwin's path into your path. But even in that case cp is a Unix tool and it won't accept a Windows path like E:Backup

    – phuclv
    2 hours ago













  • Oh, so this is some weird thing that only magically happens to work probably because I have the Windows Subsystem for Linux installed on my machine, and somehow that allows me to use the command in Command Prompt? Weird...

    – Pro Q
    2 hours ago






  • 1





    of course it'll work but not as you expected. E:Backup m.d.y is a file named exactly like that in the current directory, because : is a valid character in Unix file names, and B is some invalid escape which will be treated as literal B, and is also valid in file names in Unix

    – phuclv
    2 hours ago





















  • Which shell are you using? Bash doesn't use E:Backup and PowerShell doesn't have things like verbose

    – phuclv
    22 hours ago











  • Command Prompt is what I'm using

    – Pro Q
    4 hours ago











  • no, there's no cp in cmd, unless you put cygwin's path into your path. But even in that case cp is a Unix tool and it won't accept a Windows path like E:Backup

    – phuclv
    2 hours ago













  • Oh, so this is some weird thing that only magically happens to work probably because I have the Windows Subsystem for Linux installed on my machine, and somehow that allows me to use the command in Command Prompt? Weird...

    – Pro Q
    2 hours ago






  • 1





    of course it'll work but not as you expected. E:Backup m.d.y is a file named exactly like that in the current directory, because : is a valid character in Unix file names, and B is some invalid escape which will be treated as literal B, and is also valid in file names in Unix

    – phuclv
    2 hours ago



















Which shell are you using? Bash doesn't use E:Backup and PowerShell doesn't have things like verbose

– phuclv
22 hours ago





Which shell are you using? Bash doesn't use E:Backup and PowerShell doesn't have things like verbose

– phuclv
22 hours ago













Command Prompt is what I'm using

– Pro Q
4 hours ago





Command Prompt is what I'm using

– Pro Q
4 hours ago













no, there's no cp in cmd, unless you put cygwin's path into your path. But even in that case cp is a Unix tool and it won't accept a Windows path like E:Backup

– phuclv
2 hours ago







no, there's no cp in cmd, unless you put cygwin's path into your path. But even in that case cp is a Unix tool and it won't accept a Windows path like E:Backup

– phuclv
2 hours ago















Oh, so this is some weird thing that only magically happens to work probably because I have the Windows Subsystem for Linux installed on my machine, and somehow that allows me to use the command in Command Prompt? Weird...

– Pro Q
2 hours ago





Oh, so this is some weird thing that only magically happens to work probably because I have the Windows Subsystem for Linux installed on my machine, and somehow that allows me to use the command in Command Prompt? Weird...

– Pro Q
2 hours ago




1




1





of course it'll work but not as you expected. E:Backup m.d.y is a file named exactly like that in the current directory, because : is a valid character in Unix file names, and B is some invalid escape which will be treated as literal B, and is also valid in file names in Unix

– phuclv
2 hours ago







of course it'll work but not as you expected. E:Backup m.d.y is a file named exactly like that in the current directory, because : is a valid character in Unix file names, and B is some invalid escape which will be treated as literal B, and is also valid in file names in Unix

– phuclv
2 hours ago












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