Re: Order of files with 'cp'

From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida_at_ceid.upatras.gr>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 14:33:57 +0200
On 2005-11-21 12:10, Brian Candler <B.Candler_at_pobox.com> wrote:
>On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 01:46:14PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>> To return to the problem at hand, the problem is that the
>> 'sorting' function is allowed to re-arrange the order of argv[]
>> elements.  I'd probably try to write mastercmp() in a way that
>> satisfies all of the following:
>>
>>     - All files are sorted before all directories
>>     - Files are arranged by their argv[] order
>>     - Directories are arranged by their argv[] order
>
> I think that was my option (1) at
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-November/058098.html

Of course.  I just misunderstood you back then :)
Received on Mon Nov 21 2005 - 11:34:30 UTC

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