I have a folder structure that is something like this:
a/
|b/
| f1
| f2
|c/
| f3
| f4
|d/
| f5
| f6
Where b, c, and d can contain main files and sub directories. Then I have a destination folder e, where the destination folder e exists.
When I run cp -r a/c e/ or cp -r a/d e/ c and d are copied to e as I expect, with their internal folder structure.
However, when I run cp -r a/b e/ the result is not the same.
Only the content of a/b is copied but not b itself.
It is almost like the command that is run is cp -r a/b/* e/
I cannot see anything special about the folder with ls or file. It has the same rights as c and d and is shown as directory when I run file on it.
Is there a way to debug what is happening? I first experienced the problem running copy from python using subprocess:
import subprocess
import pathlib
for folder in pathlib.Path("a/").iterdir():
if folder.is_dir():
subprocess.run(["cp", "-r", str(folder), "e/"])
afterwards I tried to run the command cp -r a/b e/ from the command line and had the samme issue.
