On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:06 PM, Rodolfo Gouveia <rgouv...@cosmico.net>wrote:
> It seems the 'r' flag isn't mentioned on the man page.
> I glanced at the code and it seems to do something
> very similar to 'R'.
>

>From man cp ("STANDARDS" section):
     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.


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