Order of files with 'cp'

[Brian Candler]

> 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.

Regards,

Brian.