At 06:13 PM 2/11/00 -0800, Tamas D'Varde wrote:
>cp -r is not a recursive copy. You have to use cp -R.
>
How certain are you of this? My man page (Debian 2.1 system) lists both -r
and -R as options to cp, with this somewhat obscure distinction between the two:
-r Copy directories recursively, copying all non-directories
as if they were regular files
-R, --recursive
Copy directories recursively.
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