Re: cp -p

[Jim Meyering]

Thanks for the suggestion.
FWIW, I've added it to the TODO file.

"Noel L Yap" <address@hidden> wrote:
...
| Yes, in my rush to complain :-) I had forgotten to suggest such an extension 
in
| options.  I was thinking something more like:
|
|      cp --preserve=timestamp,owner,group,mode
|
| where any of "timestamp", "owner", "group", or "mode" may or may not be
| specified.  The default behaviour of "cp --preserve" would be the way it is 
now
| (ie preserve everything that can be).
|
| Since I didn't know how to make such a code change (ie have optional arguments
| to long options) nor did I have time to learn, I settled for changing my own
| private copy to do what I want (I love open source ;-)
|
| Noel