Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 04:47:44PM -0500, David Frascone wrote: >> This small patch adds the -a (archive) flag to cp. Personally, I use cp -a >> all the time, and I miss it on BSD. This makes cp share the common -a flag >> with rsync and other file manipulation utilities. > > I, for one, would welcome this addition - I often find myself typing > 'cp -a' only to get an error message and then find myself having to > look up the correct combination of arguments to achieve the intended > functionality. > > Brix I think it's great. Actually, I did the same about 1.5 yrs ago (see here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-August/017540.html ), and the -a option got shot down. I hope you have more luck! :) EricReceived on Tue Feb 12 2008 - 01:23:48 UTC
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