Merging file sub-trees

[Bill Mullen]

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 pll at lanminds.com wrote:

> 
> In a message dated: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:49:57 EDT
> "Lee D. Rothstein" said:
> 
> >>Are you sure you're using the Gnu 'cp'?
> >>My Debian man page has it mentioned and
> >>it seems to work for me.
> >
> >==
> >
> >No stinkin '--reply' option for:
> >================================
> >
> >cp, on Redhat:
> >--------------
> >$ cp --version
> >cp (fileutils) 4.1
> >
> >cp, on Cygwin:
> >--------------
> >$ cp --version
> >cp (fileutils) 4.1
> 
> 
> Hmmmm:
> 
> $ cp --version
> cp (fileutils) 4.1.9
> Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.
> 
> 
> Maybe this option is new in 4.1.9 and those systems haven't upgraded yet?

Could be ...

moon at tvbox:~$ cp --version
cp (fileutils) 4.1.11
Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, and Jim Meyering.

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