I just don't understand what you are telling me, I'm sorry.
if I tried these soultions above the copy sometimes fails with messages like 'not such a folder' or so, but when I make a destination folder it works and it copies only the file, not the subolders.
maybe I was in the false root, because I tried from /tmp...so it could be that the system searched /tmp/users/...how daft.
but that also can't be true, because he takes the file by
[cp -pr users/abc/def/car.exe own] and writes it to the /root as a file called own. I haven't the faintest idea.
I'll have a look tomorrow at it and write back soon.
today it's enough...mental breakdown