Comment by spijdar

> nobody™ still runs coreutils from 24 years ago.

  Sprite 2.077 pc386
  
          Welcome to Sprite
  
  root@cherimoya [1] # cp --version
  GNU fileutils 3.9
  root@cherimoya [2] # cp --help | grep recurs
    -r                           copy recursively, non-directories as files
    -R, --recursive              copy directories recursively
  root@cherimoya [3] #

I'll take the honorary title of nobody ;-)