-r required when -a already specified in --files-from?

[Kulkarni Shantanu]

* Carlos Carvalho <carlos at fisica.ufpr.br> [101001 06:16]:
> The man page entry for -a is pretty clear: "The only exception to the
> above equivalence is when --files-from is specified, in which case -r
> is not implied".

Thanks a lot Carlos. I am still not sure how I missed that in the
manual. 

Thanks.
Shantanu
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