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 the way cp -r does. > (For symlinks, etc.) According to cp(1), there *isn't* a -r. That's the whole reason I found it odd we use the opposite flag for scp(1). --Kurt
