Paul Sokolovsky wrote:
> GC> So I'm guessing that the fileutils manual is wrong. Correct?
> Yes. Use -p flag for that. But note that it might be GNU extension.

It's been around for awhile. A book I have from 1989, supposedly
documenting AT&T SVR3 and BSD 4.3 don't show it. I seem to recall using
it in the early 90's, at least with SVR4.

This effect is not clearly documented in Linux, nor in Solaris, but is
doc'd on HP-UX.
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