[PATCH] adding two new options to 'cp'
John-Mark Gurney
gurney_j at resnet.uoregon.edu
Mon Jul 31 23:21:39 UTC 2006
Ivan Voras wrote this message on Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 00:07 +0200:
> older people who stick with what they know will work - vast majority of
> younger admins I know either personally or on the 'net generally know
> only Linux.
>
> Using common options help bring people over, and also saves trouble with
> porting shell script code :)
Helping people not be portable w/ other Unixes like Solaris is something
we should not do... Can anyone name another major Unix besides Linux that
has the -a option?
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