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From: Ingo Schwarze
Subject: Re: cp -r different than cp -R ?
Date: Thursday, November 19, 2009 - 3:17 pm

Rodolfo Gouveia wrote on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:06:10PM -0500:


schwarze@gini $ man cp | tail -n 9

     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 FIFOs.

HISTORY
     A cp command appeared in Version 1 AT&T UNIX.

OpenBSD 4.6                    February 8, 2009                              2
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cp -r different than cp -R ?, Rodolfo Gouveia, (Thu Nov 19, 3:06 pm)
Re: cp -r different than cp -R ?, J Sisson, (Thu Nov 19, 3:16 pm)
Re: cp -r different than cp -R ?, Ingo Schwarze, (Thu Nov 19, 3:17 pm)
Re: cp -r different than cp -R ?, Bryan, (Thu Nov 19, 3:18 pm)
Re: cp -r different than cp -R ?, Rodolfo Gouveia, (Thu Nov 19, 3:19 pm)
Re: cp -r different than cp -R ?, Marcus Karlsson, (Thu Nov 19, 3:22 pm)
Re: cp -r different than cp -R ?, Paul M, (Thu Nov 19, 3:45 pm)
Re: cp -r different than cp -R ?, Matthias Kilian, (Thu Nov 19, 4:01 pm)
Re: cp -r different than cp -R ?, Philip Guenther, (Thu Nov 19, 4:09 pm)
Re: cp -r different than cp -R ?, Paul M, (Thu Nov 19, 4:52 pm)