Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 01:25:08 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/mkdir mkdir.1 mkdir.c Message-ID: <199908300825.BAA18449@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 30 Aug 1999 09:36:14 %2B0200." <19990830093613.A6276@cons.org>
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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. I don't see anything like that being done here. > If anything, it might be useful for commands that typically take > several arguments and those arguments are often a result from shell > globbing. Like, let's see, cp, mv, rm, etc.? It's even more relevant for commands which generate their own datasets through internal processes (eg. mv, cp -R, rm -r...) -- \\ 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
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