On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:53:04AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Monday 11 February 2008 04:47:44 pm 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. > > > > Comments, flames, etc welcome. > > I have this patch from the last time this came up. It maps -a to -RpP rather > than -rpP though. Since -r won't preserve symlinks but copy their contents, I > think -RpP is probably the better default. ... Looks good to me, yes. Does anybody have any objections to this option being added to cp(1) in -current? Brix -- Henrik Brix Andersen <brix_at_FreeBSD.org>
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