Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:35:24 +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: <19990830103523.A6689@cons.org> In-Reply-To: <199908300825.BAA18449@dingo.cdrom.com>; from Mike Smith on Mon, Aug 30, 1999 at 01:25:08AM -0700 References: <19990830093613.A6276@cons.org> <199908300825.BAA18449@dingo.cdrom.com>
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In <199908300825.BAA18449@dingo.cdrom.com>, Mike Smith wrote: > > 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. Isn't it the case for mkdir(1)? > > 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...) I said it makes a little more sense than for mkdir, not that I support it. Except in combination with -R as I said. 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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