Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ctrsol!cica!iuvax!watmath!watcgl!andrewt From: andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu (Andrew Thomas) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech Subject: Re: Ash 1.1 - a simple request Message-ID: Date: 21 Nov 89 16:18:56 GMT References: <13920013@hpfelg.HP.COM> Sender: daemon@watcgl.waterloo.edu Organization: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Lines: 77 In-reply-to: koren@hpfelg.HP.COM's message of 13 Nov 89 04:55:23 GMT Completed rm, cp, and mv Commands The 'rm', 'cp', and 'mv' commands have been completed. 'rm' and 'cp' now support a -r flag for recursive operations, and all three support a '-v' (verbose) flag which prints the file names as they are operated upon. The only remaining addition is a -c (clone) option to 'cp' which keeps date stamps and file permissions intact. I'll add this as soon as I figure out how. I would like to make a request here. The unix flag for preserving date stamps, permissions, etc. on the cp command is -p (for preserve). Unless you are following another convention with your flag naming, it would be nice to see this flag as -p for those of us who work on unix a lot as well. Thanks for a great shell. ASH Amiga Shell Page 5 Addendum to 1.1 -- Andrew Thomas andrewt@watsnew.waterloo.edu Systems Design Eng. University of Waterloo "If a million people do a stupid thing, it's still a stupid thing." - Opus