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Re: cp --help


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: cp --help
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:42:16 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux)

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

>     -l, --link                   link files instead of copying
>     -L, --dereference            always follow symbolic links
>     -P  --no-dereference         never follow symbolic links

There's a comma missing after that "-P".  I installed this obvious patch:

--- cp.c        24 Jan 2005 08:10:53 -0000      1.204
+++ cp.c        25 Jan 2005 00:41:36 -0000      1.205
@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ Mandatory arguments to long options are 
   -L, --dereference            always follow symbolic links\n\
 "), stdout);
       fputs (_("\
-  -P  --no-dereference         never follow symbolic links\n\
+  -P, --no-dereference         never follow symbolic links\n\
 "), stdout);
       fputs (_("\
   -p                           same as --preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps\n\




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