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:

        $ touch a b; mkdir c
        $ cp -v a b c
        a -> c/a
        b -> c/b

> +.It Fl v
> +Explain what is being done.

A more compendious option description for bin/cp/cp.1 would be: 

        .It Fl v
        Display the source and destination of each copied file.

The above 2 suggestions make sense to the proposed mv(1) patch too,
modulo s/copied/moved/.

Kind regards,

Job

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