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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: bin/44212: Unify 'recursive' options -r and -R
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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
 

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