From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Nov 5 11:36:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.wxs.nl (smtp03.wxs.nl [195.121.6.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41C714BF4 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 11:36:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from asmodai@wxs.nl) Received: from daemon.ninth-circle.org ([195.121.196.229]) by smtp03.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 3.61) with ESMTP id AAB661 for ; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 20:36:20 +0100 Received: (from asmodai@localhost) by daemon.ninth-circle.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA13503 for doc@freebsd.org; Fri, 5 Nov 1999 20:36:15 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from asmodai) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 20:36:15 +0100 From: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai To: doc@freebsd.org Subject: cp Message-ID: <19991105203615.B12970@daemon.ninth-circle.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i Organisation: Ninth-Circle Enterprises Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org A question, following a discussion on the automake discussion list I tried to use cp -r and found that it was actually usable. From what I am able to glance from the source file cp.c it looks as if -r and -R do the same. If so, we porbably want to add this flag to the man page, but first I wonder if -R and -r _are_ in fact the same. Comments? -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven/Asmodai asmodai(at)wxs.nl The BSD Programmer's Documentation Project Network/Security Specialist BSD: Technical excellence at its best There are 3 kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message