Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> > Must be an old version;
>
> The man page says:
> GNU coreutils 8.21 April 2014CP(1)
> April 2014, thus not that old.
On your system that must be the date when the man page was formatted.
It isn't the date when the ver
On 2014-05-24 10:28:30 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >this is also what the info file says: "When
> >copying from a symbolic link, `cp' normally follows the link only
> >when not copying recursively."
>
> Must be an old version;
The man page says:
GNU coreutils 8.21
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
this is also what the info file says: "When
copying from a symbolic link, `cp' normally follows the link only
when not copying recursively."
Must be an old version; the current text says "When copying from a
symbolic link, 'cp' normally follows the link only when not cop
The cp(1) man page does not describe the behavior on symbolic links
when copying recursively. It appears that in such a case, cp does not
dereference the links (this is also what the info file says: "When
copying from a symbolic link, `cp' normally follows the link only
when not copying recursively
