[PATCH] document scp -r better

Matthew Vernon matthew at debian.org
Fri Sep 28 06:31:00 EST 2001


Hi,

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

Cheers,

Matthew

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