Re: [PATCH]: add an option for quiet copy operations (original) (raw)

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From: Pádraig Brady
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: add an option for quiet copy operations
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:01:36 +0000
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On 02/16/2012 07:21 AM, Guido Trentalancia wrote:

Hello.

I am writing to propose a simple patch for review. The patch adds an option "-q" or "--quiet" to cp, mv and install so that they can support quiet operation on missing SOURCE files.

Such behavior might be useful for example when using any of the above commands from scripts.

The patch can be applied both to the git tree and to the latest release.

Add an option "-q, --quiet" for cp, mv and install so that the program does not complain about any missing SOURCE file.

Signed-off-by: Guido Trentalancia <address@hidden>

Thanks a lot for taking time to do the patch. I'm not sure about it though. You could easily use other tools to filter non existent arguments. Something like:

find file1 file2 -print0 2>/dev/null | xargs -r0 cp --target=dest/

Or alternatively something like:

cp $(realpath -e file1 file2 2>/dev/null) dest/

cheers, Pádraig.

p.s. Hmm, I wonder should realpath -e suppress ENOENT. readlink -e does