Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 00:02:30 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: obrien@FreeBSD.org Cc: cracauer@cons.org (Martin Cracauer), cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/bin/mkdir mkdir.1 mkdir.c Message-ID: <199908310702.AAA68112@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <19990830160805.C25026@dragon.nuxi.com> from "David O'Brien" at "Aug 30, 1999 04:08:05 pm"
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> > 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. > > Do you find the twirling "|" useful when you boot? No. Infact I've seen several machines that it doesn't work on correctly due to poor implementation due to code space restrictions. > Do you find setting ``hash'' in old FTP clients useful? No. Not for 20 years, back when we had all of 56K for the backbone, yes, then it was used as an ftp of hosts.txt could take hours to run and we needed to know it had not stalled. >Many will answer yes, as they give the user feedback the ____ is >doing something. I'll give you that. As I caved in, against my better judgement, on the cp -Rv thing. However mkdir is fast running, does not have a -R option and print (*argv) is sick. > "-v" is useful to give an overview of the progression of the commands. Makes since when commands are long running, and or generating there own data sets. I think we have all given into that. > Also I have occationally realized I mv,cp,ln'd files to the wrong place > due to shell wild-card expansion. Then what you should be running for a shell is one with -x turned on. It is the _SHELL_ that caused you this problem, not mv, cp, or mkdir. -- Rod Grimes - KD7CAX - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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