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Bug 26847 - scp doesn"t recognize -R option
Summary: scp doesn"t recognize -R option
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High trivial (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2003-08-18 00:55 UTC by Philippe Lafoucrière
Modified: 2003-08-18 06:12 UTC (History)
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Description Philippe Lafoucrière 2003-08-18 00:55:49 UTC 
scp should have options syntax similar to cp.
a recursive copy of cp can be made with "cp -R" and "scp -r" with scp.
"scp -R" won't work. I suggest to patch scp to accept the -r option too.
Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-08-18 05:32:56 UTC 
did you try scponly ?
Comment 2 Philippe Lafoucrière 2003-08-18 06:00:00 UTC 
no, and scponly isn't installed by default. :(
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2003-08-18 06:12:13 UTC 
since no other linux/bsd distro supports scp -R, doing so in Gentoo linux would 
introduce wrong incompatibilities imo