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authorTom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2005-02-26 04:58:47 +0000
committerTom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org>2005-02-26 04:58:47 +0000
commit12539f2126787745060b824df64d2bc0a7f521b4 (patch)
treefec90af3c878e264502a60dc686c7ab64991b05c /bin
parentf288752ffb7379fec46bfa82c286bdd0f05f95c1 (diff)
Notes
Diffstat (limited to 'bin')
-rw-r--r--bin/cp/cp.18
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/bin/cp/cp.1 b/bin/cp/cp.1
index abec6901ab31..f2551f4b478d 100644
--- a/bin/cp/cp.1
+++ b/bin/cp/cp.1
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
.\" @(#)cp.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/18/94
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd July 23, 2002
+.Dd February 23, 2005
.Dt CP 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@ If
designates a directory,
.Nm
copies the directory and the entire subtree connected at that point.
+If the
+.Ar source_file
+ends in a
+.Pa / ,
+the contents of the directory are copied rather than the
+directory itself.
This option also causes symbolic links to be copied, rather than
indirected through, and for
.Nm