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From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
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Cc: Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Order of files with 'cp'
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On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 01:46:14PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> To return to the problem at hand, the problem is that the
> 'sorting' function is allowed to re-arrange the order of argv[]
> elements.  I'd probably try to write mastercmp() in a way that
> satisfies all of the following:
> 
>     - All files are sorted before all directories
>     - Files are arranged by their argv[] order
>     - Directories are arranged by their argv[] order

I think that was my option (1) at
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-November/058098.html

Regards,

Brian.