Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:36:16 +0000 From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Order of files with 'cp' Message-ID: <20051118153616.GA12210@uk.tiscali.com> In-Reply-To: <20051118145051.GA3713@Pandora.MHoerich.de> References: <20051116161540.GB4383@uk.tiscali.com> <20051118091333.GA1058@galgenberg.net> <20051118145051.GA3713@Pandora.MHoerich.de>
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> 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. Regards, Brian.
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