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+++ b/usr/src/man/man1/cp.1
@@ -45,11 +45,10 @@
.\" Portions Copyright (c) 2007, Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved
.\" Copyright 2013 Nexenta Systems, Inc. All rights reserved.
.\"
-.TH CP 1 "Apr 15, 2013"
+.TH CP 1 "May 17, 2020"
.SH NAME
cp \- copy files
.SH SYNOPSIS
-.LP
.nf
\fB/usr/bin/cp\fR [\fB-afip@/\fR] \fIsource_file\fR \fItarget_file\fR
.fi
@@ -90,8 +89,6 @@ cp \- copy files
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
-.sp
-.LP
In the first synopsis form, neither \fIsource_file\fR nor \fItarget_file\fR are
directory files, nor can they have the same name. The \fBcp\fR utility copies
the contents of \fIsource_file\fR to the destination path named by
@@ -121,8 +118,6 @@ In the third or fourth synopsis forms, one or more directories specified by
the \fB-r\fR or \fB-R\fR must be specified. For each \fIsource_dir\fR, \fBcp\fR
copies all files and subdirectories.
.SH OPTIONS
-.sp
-.LP
The following options are supported for both \fB/usr/bin/cp\fR and
\fB/usr/xpg4/bin/cp\fR:
.sp
@@ -272,8 +267,6 @@ Specifying more than one of the mutually-exclusive options \fB-H\fR, \fB-L\fR,
and \fB-P\fR is not considered an error. The last option specified determines
the behavior of the utility.
.SS "/usr/bin/cp"
-.sp
-.LP
If the \fB-p\fR option is specified with either the \fB-@\fR option or the
\fB-/\fR option, \fB/usr/bin/cp\fR behaves as follows
.RS +4
@@ -291,10 +284,8 @@ When both \fB-p\fR and \fB-/\fR are specified in any order, the copy fails if
extended system attributes cannot be copied.
.RE
.SS "/usr/xpg4/bin/cp"
-.sp
-.LP
If the \fB-p\fR option is specified with either the \fB-@\fR option or the
-\fB-/\fR option, /\fBusr/xpg4/bin/cp\fR behaves as follows:
+\fB-/\fR option, \fB/usr/xpg4/bin/cp\fR behaves as follows:
.RS +4
.TP
.ie t \(bu
@@ -311,8 +302,6 @@ determines whether the copy fails if extended system attributes cannot be
preserved.
.RE
.SH OPERANDS
-.sp
-.LP
The following operands are supported:
.sp
.ne 2
@@ -352,12 +341,9 @@ A pathname of a directory to contain the copied files.
.RE
.SH USAGE
-.sp
-.LP
See \fBlargefile\fR(5) for the description of the behavior of \fBcp\fR when
encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).
.SH EXAMPLES
-.LP
\fBExample 1 \fRCopying a File
.sp
.LP
@@ -462,8 +448,6 @@ $ ls -/c /tmp/file1
.sp
.SH ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
-.sp
-.LP
See \fBenviron\fR(5) for descriptions of the following environment variables
that affect the execution of \fBcp\fR: \fBLANG\fR, \fBLC_ALL\fR,
\fBLC_COLLATE\fR, \fBLC_CTYPE\fR, \fBLC_MESSAGES\fR, and \fBNLSPATH\fR.
@@ -478,8 +462,6 @@ in \fBLC_CTYPE\fR determines the locale for interpretation of sequences of
bytes of text data a characters, the behavior of character classes used in the
expression defined for the \fByesexpr\fR. See \fBlocale\fR(5).
.SH EXIT STATUS
-.sp
-.LP
The following exit values are returned:
.sp
.ne 2
@@ -500,13 +482,8 @@ An error occurred.
.RE
.SH ATTRIBUTES
-.sp
-.LP
See \fBattributes\fR(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
.SS "/usr/bin/cp"
-.sp
-
-.sp
.TS
box;
c | c
@@ -519,9 +496,6 @@ Interface Stability Committed
.TE
.SS "/usr/xpg4/bin/cp"
-.sp
-
-.sp
.TS
box;
c | c
@@ -534,14 +508,10 @@ Interface Stability Committed
.TE
.SH SEE ALSO
-.sp
-.LP
\fBchmod\fR(1), \fBchown\fR(1), \fBsetfacl\fR(1), \fButime\fR(2),
\fBfgetattr\fR(3C), \fBattributes\fR(5), \fBenviron\fR(5), \fBfsattr\fR(5),
\fBlargefile\fR(5), \fBlocale\fR(5), \fBstandards\fR(5)
.SH NOTES
-.sp
-.LP
The permission modes of the source file are preserved in the copy.
.sp
.LP