From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 9 2: 3:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5629537B41C for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 02:03:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g29A3dP65408; Sat, 9 Mar 2002 02:03:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 01:59:35 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Dima Dorfman Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, Jordan DeLong Subject: Re: bin/34744: Add -a (same as -PpR) flag to cp(1) Message-ID: <20020309015935.A65349@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <200202090347.g193lXd55117@cs6668125-184.austin.rr.com> <20020309044914.A6C6E3E2F@bazooka.trit.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020309044914.A6C6E3E2F@bazooka.trit.org>; from dima@trit.org on Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:49:09AM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 04:49:09AM +0000, Dima Dorfman wrote: > Jordan DeLong wrote: > > > > >Number: 34744 > > >Category: bin > > >Synopsis: Add -a (same as -PpR) flag to cp(1) > > >Description: > > some other cp(1) implementations (such as GNU cp) provide a -a > > flag, which just means -PpR. somewhat useful. > > Does anybody on -hackers object to this change? I find myself using > `cp -RPp` frequently and would welcome this shortcut. If nobody I just see no need in this shortcut. When I added -v (yes, not POSUCKS), there was no other way to get that functionality. Here someone is just too lazy to type on extra keystroke (-P is the default). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message