Thus spake Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I'm concerned about the used character: "-r" is similiar to "-R" > > > > > > Yes, `-r' would be a very poor choice for the reason you state. > > > > Agreed, but the precedent has already been set by touch(1) and > > truncate(1). If we're going to get it wrong some of the time, we > > might as well be consistent about it. > > When we don't look at the fact that neither touch nor truncate operate > recursivly... what about changing touch and truncate to allow the > proposed -c (or -i) too and mark -r as deprecated (if it isn't covered > by a standard)?
Adding a uniform replacement to all three sounds good to me, as long as there isn't any standard involved. I'm a little bit suspicious given that Solaris touch(1) uses -r to mean the same thing we do. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
