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Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> writes:

> A quite similar ambiguity exists in cp(1) in mv(1), which is also
> resolved by the use of the trailing slash character.  However, I've
> encountered only one person aware of that disambiguation, and in cp(1)
> only, but in the "I always include the trailing slash" way, without
> actually understanding it fully.  Maybe I need to encounter more
> people, I don't know.

If the majority of (perhaps new) users you already know find such
disambiguation method unfamiliar, that already is a good anecdata
without any need for you to meet more people to tell us that it is
not a very easy-to-understand thing for them, no?