Bang Jun-Young <junyoung@netbsd.org> writes:

> On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 07:20:24PM -0500, Jason R. Fink wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I was trolling the PR summaries and came across this
> > "-v" request, right now our cp works as specified
> > by opengroup. In other words, should someone just close 
> > the thing and note -v is not required?
> > 
> > I'd be more than happy to close it myself.
> 
> But isn't it convenient? I have seen a number of scripts from Linux
> and FreeBSD make use of it.

That, precisely, is the problem.  -v should be fine for interactive
use, but when scripts are concerned you usually want them to be
portable.

So, adding -v is probably ok if there is user demand for it, but I'd
prefer a bigger warning sticker in the manual.


- Klaus