Rodolfo Gouveia wrote on Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 05:06:10PM -0500: > It seems the 'r' flag isn't mentioned on the man page.
schwa...@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
