Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:36:14 +0200 From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/mkdir mkdir.1 mkdir.c Message-ID: <19990830093613.A6276@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <199908300715.AAA18053@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 12:15:54AM -0700 References: <19990830091345.B90785@cons.org> <199908300715.AAA18053@dingo.cdrom.com>
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In <199908300715.AAA18053@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith wrote: > > > 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). You mean these options are useful for new users to `alias` them in their dotfiles for interactive use? Sorry, I don't agree for commands that would just echo an argument the user just just typed in. If anything, it might be useful for commands that typically take several arguments and those arguments are often a result from shell globbing. I agree that -v makes sense for `cp -R`. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> http://www.cons.org/cracauer/ Tel.: (private) +4940 5221829 Fax.: (private) +4940 5228536 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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