Thanks for the suggestion. FWIW, I've added it to the TODO file. "Noel L Yap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 _______________________________________________ Bug-fileutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
