"Theo de Raadt": > 2) With very long names, it truncates the end of the path. This is less useful > information. Imagine a copy operation with multiple files being transferred, > one of them is huge and surprisingly long, but you cannot identify which one > because all the truncated long paths are the same. > > 3) (old) scp and rsync show the path only component only.
Oh, I hadn't even realized that this affects the way _all_ source file paths are displayed, whether remote or local, whether originally specified with absolute or relative path. Path width is limited to 44 characters in a normal 80-char terminal. $ echo -n /usr/ports/distfiles/ |wc 0 1 21 $ echo -n /usr/ports/logs/amd64/paths/ |wc 0 1 28 > So.... I think the path-component-only scheme is better, and this should > change. Yes, please. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de