bug#21094: cp: add option to sort when copying

2018-10-24 Thread Assaf Gordon
severity 21094 wishlist tags 21094 wontfix close 21094 stop (triaging old bugs) On 20/07/15 10:20 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote: Pádraig Brady writes: For the progress use case, one can use rsync, or perhaps an explicit progress option in cp. rsync also sorts. Given the above, and no further

bug#21094: cp: add option to sort when copying

2015-07-20 Thread Andreas Schwab
Pádraig Brady writes: > For the progress use case, one can use rsync, > or perhaps an explicit progress option in cp. rsync also sorts. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely

bug#21094: cp: add option to sort when copying

2015-07-20 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 20/07/15 01:34, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 19/07/15 07:09, Steve Russell wrote: >> When performing a recursive copy of a large number of files it would be >> helpful to have an option to copy the files in each directory in sorted >> order of the file names. There are a couple of use cases for t

bug#21094: cp: add option to sort when copying

2015-07-19 Thread Pádraig Brady
On 19/07/15 07:09, Steve Russell wrote: > When performing a recursive copy of a large number of files it would be > helpful to have an option to copy the files in each directory in sorted order > of the file names. There are a couple of use cases for this. > > The first is to be able to easily

bug#21094: cp: add option to sort when copying

2015-07-19 Thread Steve Russell
When performing a recursive copy of a large number of files it would be helpful to have an option to copy the files in each directory in sorted order of the file names. There are a couple of use cases for this.   The first is to be able to easily observe the progress of the copy using the -v opt