> Job Snijders wrote: > > 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: > > yes, very much. if we're going to add an option on the basis that everybody > else has it, it should definitely do the same thing. > > -v seems reasonable to me. it's a common option for lots of other utilities, > like tar, for which similar objections about lack of benefit can be made. i > tend to monitor programs' progress using ktrace, but that doesn't mean we > can't provide an easier way.
and I use ^T alot. But I only want SIGINFO handlers in certain programs (I'm unable to be exact about which ones "seem a right fit", but can declare we don't want them everywhere). For this case following the -v herd seems better, and even better than nothing.
