Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 23:26:03 +0300 (MSK) From: "Alexey M. Zelkin" <phantom@sunbay.com> To: asmodai@wxs.nl (Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai) Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cp Message-ID: <199911052026.XAA21156@scorpion.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <19991105203615.B12970@daemon.ninth-circle.org> from Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai at "Nov 5, 99 08:36:15 pm"
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hi,
> 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
It's already there.
> wonder if -R and -r _are_ in fact the same.
$ man cp
[..]
COMPATIBILITY
Historic versions of the cp utility had a -r option. This implementation
supports that option, however, its use is strongly discouraged, as it
does not correctly copy special files, symbolic links or fifo's.
[..]
--
SY,
Alexey
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