Timeline for What does -ar flag mean for cp?
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| Jun 5, 2015 at 13:14 | comment | added | Ganbayar Gansukh | @Random832, thank you for explaining that. I have been always using -r and will use -R now on. | |
| Jun 3, 2015 at 17:39 | comment | added | Random832 | @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. | |
| Jun 3, 2015 at 16:53 | comment | added | Ganbayar Gansukh | Does -r and -R has any difference? | |
| Jun 3, 2015 at 16:48 | vote | accept | Ganbayar Gansukh | ||
| Jun 3, 2015 at 15:51 | history | answered | Drew | CC BY-SA 3.0 |