Order of files with 'cp'

[Eric Anderson]

Brian Candler wrote:
>>This just adds a -o flag to cp, which preserves order.
> 
> 
> Hmm, that's another solution that I hadn't thought of.
> 
> Advantages: simple to implement. (Even simpler if you use the ?: operator).
> 
> Disadvantages: it's still strange that the default behaviour is to copy the
> files in an arbitary shuffled order. The manpage will need updating to
> document the -o flag, and hence will have to explain the strangeness.
> Commands arguably have too many flags already.

I didn't think cp (or any tool, like tar) did it 'arbitrarily', but in 
order of mtime.  Is that not true?

Eric


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