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Diffstat (limited to 'bin/cp')
| -rw-r--r-- | bin/cp/cp.1 | 50 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/bin/cp/cp.1 b/bin/cp/cp.1 index 4038aeeb8a50..ad886b46908a 100644 --- a/bin/cp/cp.1 +++ b/bin/cp/cp.1 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" @(#)cp.1 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/18/94 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd October 7, 2006 +.Dd October 24, 2006 .Dt CP 1 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -251,38 +251,28 @@ Historic versions of the utility had a .Fl r option. -This implementation supports that option, however, its use is strongly -discouraged as its behavior is very implementation dependent. -In this version of +This implementation supports that option, however, its behavior +is different from historical +.Fx +behavior. +Use +of this option +is strongly discouraged as the behavior is +implementation-dependent. +In this implementation of .Nm , .Fl r -is just a synonym for -.Fl RL . -The -.Fl R -option gives the correct behavior while -.Fl L -preserves the sometimes-useful historical behavior of following symbolic links. -The -.Fl r -option is deprecated in -.Tn POSIX - and its behavior is likely to be different -in future versions of -.Nm -and its behavior is likely to be different -in future versions of -.Fx . -Previous versions of -.Nm -in -.Fx , -the +works alike +.Fl RL +thus all files, including special files, are copied +in a manner similar to normal files. +Data within these special files +will not be copied, only the file itself. +Historical implemenations +of .Fl r -behavior was to not correctly copy special files, symbolic links -or fifos. -Symbolic links were followed, and the contents of special -files and fifos were copied to regular files. +differ as they could copy the internal contents of special +files while recreating a hierarchy. .Pp The .Fl v |