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cp command not working with wildcards on Mac OS X

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Problem

I am using the following command on a Mac OS X machine: However I get: There are clearly 4 files in that directory called: If I spell out the full name of the file in the copy command, it works fine, but I need to be able to use wildcard as part of a build process. Logic and reason tells me this sh…

Error Output

libBotan.1.0.0.dylib
libBotan.1.0.dylib (symlink to first file)
libBotan.1.dylib (symlink to first file)
libBotan.dylib (symlink to first file)

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Fix for: cp command not working with wildcards on Mac OS X

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When you put the * in quotes, it expects that to be the literal filename rather than doing a match-all expansion. Just take out the quotes and this will work. Also, check out superuser.com, that is where questions like this go.

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