Re: cp -l

"Akinori MUSHA" <[email protected]> Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:54:02 +0900

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At Sun, 22 Dec 2002 01:39:01 -0500,
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> >What about cp -l a la GNU cp?
> 
> Why would we want this, when we already have the 'ln' command?
> (I'm not saying we should not do this, I am just wondering what
> the advantage is)

Cp(1) has -R, and can do operations recursively.  Maybe we can add the
fts(3) facilities to ln(1) instead, though.

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