[PATCH] document scp -r better

Kevin Steves stevesk at pobox.com
Fri Sep 28 10:51:25 EST 2001


On 27 Sep 2001, Matthew Vernon wrote:
:Patch from Adam McKenna (via Debian BTS) to improve how we document
:scp -r:
:
:--- scp.1.orig  Thu Sep 27 21:28:12 2001
:+++ scp.1       Thu Sep 27 21:29:22 2001
:@@ -72,7 +72,9 @@
: Preserves modification times, access times, and modes from the
: original file.
: .It Fl r
:-Recursively copy entire directories.
:+Recursively copy entire directories.  A trailing slash (/) on a
:source file
:+name means "copy the contents of this directory".  Without a trailing
:slash
:+it means "copy the directory and all of its contents".
: .It Fl v
: Verbose mode.
: Causes

where in the scp code is this functionality?




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