s6-cp and s6-mv

2018-09-21 Thread Profpatsch
Probably a dumb question, but is there a reason there is no `cp` and no `mv` in `s6-portable-utils`? What’s the recommended way of copying and moving files? -- Written with Emacs (mu4e) on NixOS. Q: Why is this email five sentences or less? A: http://five.sentenc.es/ May take up to five days to

Re: s6-cp and s6-mv

2018-09-21 Thread Laurent Bercot
Probably a dumb question, but is there a reason there is no `cp` and no `mv` in `s6-portable-utils`? Because reimplementing a full POSIX utility suite isn't a goal. There are already a lot of those you can choose from (coreutils, busybox, toybox, sbase+ubase, etc.) That said, if you don't