[X-Unix] rsync & ssh

[Brian Medley]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:07:21AM +0100, Stroller wrote:

> `ls -l foo` means "show full details of the file foo"
> `ls -l -R` means "show full details of all the files in the directory & 
> all directories below it"
> 
> `grep foo bar` means "look for foo in the file bar"
> `grep -R bar` means "look (recursively?) for bar on standard input"
> 
> So to show full details of the file "-R" we use `ls -l -- -R`
> But to look for the expression "-R" in the file bar we use `grep -e -R 
> bar`

$ cat r            
-R
$ grep -- -R r
-R
$ grep -- -A r
$ 

> `tar` requires the -f flag to indicate that the following
> argument is the name of a file on which to operate, whereas the
> file to operate on is always the last argument to the `gzip`
> command. Unix would be less horribly complicated, quicker to
> learn for beginners & handier for experienced users alike, if
> flags were standardised and some of these anomalies revised,
> however some overnight "standardisation" would break every
> shell-script on the planet.

http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification/

It would not have to break every shell script.  For example, the
behavior of some versions Solaris depends on your path.  

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