Job Snijders wrote: > On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 02:06:20PM +0200, Job Snijders wrote: > > This patch adds a -v option to cp(1) for more verbose output. > > NetBSD/FreeBSD/DragonFly/OSX's cp(1) with "-v" print file names without > the single quotes, which might indeed be more appealing to the eye:
yes, very much. if we're going to add an option on the basis that everybody else has it, it should definitely do the same thing. -v seems reasonable to me. it's a common option for lots of other utilities, like tar, for which similar objections about lack of benefit can be made. i tend to monitor programs' progress using ktrace, but that doesn't mean we can't provide an easier way. i'd wait a day to see what other improvements can be made, then resubmit a complete patch.
