The lcg-cr, which stands for copy and register, will copy a file into a storage element and registers the file within the file catalogue. Please notice // in the URL for the file.

[user@ui-node] $ lcg-cr -v --vo dech -d dcache-node.fzk.de file://etc/fstab 
Using grid catalog type: lfc
Using grid catalog : gks-0-061.fzk.de
Using LFN : /grid/dech/generated/2008-09-03/file-ba26559e-37c4-47ac-aa1c-0192e7163a29
SE type: SRMv1
Using SURL : srm://dcache-node.fzk.de:8443/pnfs/fzk.de/data/dech/generated/2008-09-03/filee667f8fe-b39e-44f9-b4ad-f60e8e29cdcc
Alias registered in Catalog: lfn:/grid/dech/generated/2008-09-03/file-ba26559e-37c4-47ac-aa1c-0192e7163a29
Source URL: file:/etc/fstab
File size: 694
VO name: dech
Destination specified: dcache-node.fzk.de
Destination URL for copy: gsiftp://dcache-node.fzk.de:22128//pnfs/fzk.de/data/dech/generated/2008-09-03/filee667f8fe-b39e-44f9-b4ad-f60e8e29cdcc
# streams: 1
# set timeout to 0 seconds
          694 bytes      1.24 KB/sec avg      1.24 KB/sec inst
Transfer took 1010 ms
Destination URL registered in Catalog: srm://dcache-node.fzk.de:8443/pnfs/fzk.de/data/dech/generated/2008-09-03/filee667f8fe-b39e-44f9-b4ad-f60e8e29cdcc
guid:a26971b6-1a9a-49f1-ad3b-f4903f3df507

Note that copying the file generated a LFN (logical file name) of /grid/dech/generated/2008-09-03/file-ba26559e-37c4-47ac-aa1c-0192e7163a29.