On Jan 02 11:30:35, es...@nerim.net wrote:
> Once in three times, I type scp -R and go "oh fuck" when it doesn't work.
Same here with 'ssh -p' vs 'scp -P'.
>Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
>> cp(1) uses -R for recursive copy. scp(1) uses -r. This diff adds -R as an
>> alias for -r to scp(1) for those assuming consistency with cp(1).
>
>But it doesn't implement cp -R semantics. It does the copy the way cp -r does.
>(For symlinks, etc.)
very good point. the
Hi Marc,
Marc Espie wrote on Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 11:30:35AM +0100:
> And if I use scp enough, I'm also likely to use cp -r by mistake.
>
> Are we likely to actually remove cp -r so the second mistake
> doesn't happen ?
I wouldn't be opposed to that. It has been deprecated since
rev. 1.1 in
On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 11:19:30AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Kurt,
>
> Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote on Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 08:21:04PM -0500:
>
> > cp(1) uses -R for recursive copy. scp(1) uses -r. This diff adds -R
> > as an alias for -r to scp(1) for those assuming consistency with cp(1).
>
>
Hi Kurt,
Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote on Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 08:21:04PM -0500:
> cp(1) uses -R for recursive copy. scp(1) uses -r. This diff adds -R
> as an alias for -r to scp(1) for those assuming consistency with cp(1).
even if cp -R and scp -r did the same thing - which, if i understand
tedu@
On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 09:31:29PM -0500, Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 09:15:14PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:
> > Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> > > cp(1) uses -R for recursive copy. scp(1) uses -r. This diff adds -R as an
> > > alias for -r to scp(1) for those assuming consistency
On Wed, Jan 01, 2020 at 09:15:14PM -0500, Ted Unangst wrote:
> Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> > cp(1) uses -R for recursive copy. scp(1) uses -r. This diff adds -R as an
> > alias for -r to scp(1) for those assuming consistency with cp(1).
> But it doesn't implement cp -R semantics. It does the copy
Kurt Mosiejczuk wrote:
> cp(1) uses -R for recursive copy. scp(1) uses -r. This diff adds -R as an
> alias for -r to scp(1) for those assuming consistency with cp(1).
But it doesn't implement cp -R semantics. It does the copy the way cp -r does.
(For symlinks, etc.)
cp(1) uses -R for recursive copy. scp(1) uses -r. This diff adds -R as an
alias for -r to scp(1) for those assuming consistency with cp(1).
--Kurt
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