On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 10:31, enh via Toybox
<[[email protected]](mailto:On Mon, Apr 1, 2024 at 10:31, enh via Toybox
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> hadn't seen this one before...
>
> cp: warning: behavior of -n is non-portable
Really? Having „Warn if GNU extensions“ flags is one thing, doing it by default
is…
> and may change in future;
> use --update=none instead
>
> (consider me skeptical that a system without -n is going to have
> --update=none…)
I’ve yet to find any utility set other than GNU with cp —update, FreeBSD and
toybox have a -n, but no one bothered to do —update. But sure, that’s more
portable.
The GNU project „removing bloat“ by deprecating extensions would be nice… if
they weren’t removing things people actually use. Instead of actual bloat
(_gawk_ has namespace control and a -M option to make the math arbitrary
precision, along with a million other things no one has ever used)
- Oliver Webb <[email protected]>
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