Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:45:27 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@centtech.com> To: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Order of files with 'cp' Message-ID: <437DF717.8010207@centtech.com> In-Reply-To: <20051118153616.GA12210@uk.tiscali.com> References: <20051116161540.GB4383@uk.tiscali.com> <20051118091333.GA1058@galgenberg.net> <20051118145051.GA3713@Pandora.MHoerich.de> <20051118153616.GA12210@uk.tiscali.com>
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Brian Candler wrote: >>This just adds a -o flag to cp, which preserves order. > > > Hmm, that's another solution that I hadn't thought of. > > Advantages: simple to implement. (Even simpler if you use the ?: operator). > > Disadvantages: it's still strange that the default behaviour is to copy the > files in an arbitary shuffled order. The manpage will need updating to > document the -o flag, and hence will have to explain the strangeness. > Commands arguably have too many flags already. I didn't think cp (or any tool, like tar) did it 'arbitrarily', but in order of mtime. Is that not true? Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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