Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:20:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/44212: Unify 'recursive' options -r and -R Message-ID: <200210190120.g9J1K4is031323@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/44212; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/44212: Unify 'recursive' options -r and -R Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 11:29:46 +1000 (EST) On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Ernst de Haan wrote: > >Description: > It would be nice if all tools in the base system that have a 'recursive' option > would all support the same argument for this. > > The scp and ls commands use -r while cp uses -R. ls actually uses -R. cp also has a -r option which is undocumented except to strongly discourage it. > This would just be a nice improvement, IMHO. If it's not possible because of > POSIX rules or anything, then tough luck. POSIX utilities mostly use -R [-H | -L | -P] except for backwards compatibility support. Unfortunately, cp -r is still standard now more than 10 years after it was strongly discouraged in BSD (in FreeBSD-1.1.5, cp's -r option was completely undocmented). I think the only problems here are that rcp still only has cp's broken -r option more than 10 years after it was strongly discouraged, and scp is too compatible with rcp. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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