On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:06:10PM -0500, Rodolfo Gouveia 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'. > I also noticed that you cannot use both flags together. > In FreeBSD and NetBSD this code exists too and again > it isn't mentioned on the man page. > > Any special reason for it?
It is at least mentioned on the cp(1) man page that the 4.6 release includes. "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." Marcus
