You can use cp -T or –no-target-directory treat DEST as a normal file.
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echo "one" > myfile1 ## create some files and directories echo "two" > mydir1 mkdir -p mydir/mydir1 cp -T myfile1 mydir/mydir1 ## mydir1 is treated as a file ## cp: cannot overwrite directory ‘mydir/mydir1’ with non-directory cp -R myfile1 mydir/mydir1 ## mydir1 is treated as a directory rm -r my* |