“Utility programs like cp have new features you may not have
seen. Here’s the third in a series about some of the handiest.“Back in Unix Version 7, cp, mv, and ln had no options: they
simply copied, renamed, or linked one or more files to a
destination. Now, GNU cp has more than twenty options, and mv and
ln aren’t far behind. Is this feature creep or innovation? You
decide, though the sidebar ‘Lest We Forget’ provides some
perspective…”
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