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From: Ernst de Haan <znerd@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: bin/44212: Unify 'recursive' options -r and -R
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>Number:         44212
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Unify 'recursive' options -r and -R
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 18 08:10:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ernst de Haan
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.4-20010815-RC1 i386
>Organization:
FreeBSD Project
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD galaxy.euronet.nl 4.4-20010815-RC1 FreeBSD 4.4-20010815-RC1 #0: Thu Aug 16 06:35:35 GMT 2001 murray@scrub.lab.nuxi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386
>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.

This would just be a nice improvement, IMHO. If it's not possible because of
POSIX rules or anything, then tough luck.
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