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Does -r and -R has any difference?

Ganbayar Gansukh
– Ganbayar Gansukh

2015-06-03 16:53:13 +00:00
Commented Jun 3, 2015 at 16:53
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@Nomadme see unix.stackexchange.com/questions/18712/… - tl;dr: you should only use -R, not -r, because -r has non-portable (and often undesired) semantics for symbolic links and special files. But they're not different on Linux.

Random832
– Random832

2015-06-03 17:39:32 +00:00
Commented Jun 3, 2015 at 17:39
@Random832, thank you for explaining that. I have been always using -r and will use -R now on.

Ganbayar Gansukh
– Ganbayar Gansukh

2015-06-05 13:14:15 +00:00
Commented Jun 5, 2015 at 13:14

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