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throwaway2046 • yesterday at 12:25 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

I'm more inclined to use the uppercase -R as it's standardized by POSIX and will generally behave the same on any POSIX compliant system.


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WhyNotHugo • yesterday at 4:48 PM

It's also the only option shown in the -h output and in man pages for some versions of cp.

I didn't even know -r was a thing until today.