From owner-cvs-all Mon Aug 30 0:24:53 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles523.castles.com [208.214.165.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDD4314DBD; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 00:24:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA18053; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 00:15:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199908300715.AAA18053@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Martin Cracauer Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/mkdir mkdir.1 mkdir.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:13:45 +0200." <19990830091345.B90785@cons.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 00:15:54 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > Though traditionalists and anti-bloat people will have difficulty > > swallowing these commits, it does help debugging and it does help in > > scripting. There have been a number of PRs requesting this functionality. > > It doesn't. `sh -x` is a far better way to do what people are trying > to do here. How will a portable script using the -v flag look like? > `sh -x` is just what you need here. It's not. Or at least, you're welcome to tell me how 'sh -x' works when the user is a) using csh, b) types the command manually, and c) uses the -R argument to cp(1). > This is a typical addition requested by people who didn't learn shell > programming. This option has _nothing_ to do with shell programming. It's an aid for _interactive_ use. [Relevant implementation commentary elided] -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message