Using cp for Staging to Production, unexpected result.

[tomandhannah]

I am using cp to copy a directory from one place to another. Both directories are in the same directory. I essentially want to copy my site from a staging server to a production server. When I use this:

cp -R /home/cccadmin/staging /home/cccadmin/production

The server copies everything in the staging directory to the production directory alright, but it copies it into a NEW directory within production.

So the result is this:
/home/cccadmin/production/staging/all-my-stuff-here

What I want is:
/home/cccadmin/production/all-my-stuff-here

What have I done wrong?

[tomandhannah]

Really? No one knows?

Anyway, the answer is to do this:

cp -R /home/cccadmin/staging/* /home/cccadmin/production

The asterisk does the trick. That's it!