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Date:      Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:54:02 +0900
From:      "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        audit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cp -l
Message-ID:  <86n0mycrb9.wl@daemon.musha.org>
In-Reply-To: <p05200f01ba2b0e19660a@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <86lm2jjsft.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <p05200f01ba2b0e19660a@128.113.24.47>

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At Sun, 22 Dec 2002 01:39:01 -0500,
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> >What about cp -l a la GNU cp?
> 
> Why would we want this, when we already have the 'ln' command?
> (I'm not saying we should not do this, I am just wondering what
> the advantage is)

Cp(1) has -R, and can do operations recursively.  Maybe we can add the
fts(3) facilities to ln(1) instead, though.

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