Fri, Feb 11, 2000 at 06:13:26PM -0800, Tamas D'Varde wrote:
> cp -r is not a recursive copy. You have to use cp -R.
>
>
no. cp -r is a recursive copy in the cp from GNU fileutils 4.01 and
at least as far back as 3.13 ( the oldest version available on
ftp.gnu.org ( if you're using something older than that, you need
an upgrade )).
from the cp man page from GNU fileutils 4.01
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-r copy recursively, non-directories as files WARNING:
use -R instead when you might copy special files
like FIFOs or /dev/zero
----------------------------------------------
It just causes problems with block and character devices. If you tried to
do a cp -r /dev/ /mnt/dev, cp would choke and instead of creating devices,
it would try to read each device like it was a file, and read it until it
couldn't read it anymore. But -r is recursive.
have a nice day
greg
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