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| From: | Pádraig Brady |
| Subject: | Re: New feature in mv |
| Date: | Wed, 05 Dec 2012 02:00:35 +0000 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120615 Thunderbird/13.0.1 |
On 12/05/2012 01:41 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
On 12/05/2012 02:34 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:On 12/05/2012 01:25 AM, Raphael S Carvalho wrote:I was thinking about writing such a program using C language, [...]The idea here is that swapping files would be just a thin wrapper around the mv or cp or ln utilities which already do the heavy lifting in C for copying data around (often using complicated techniques), or in fact just renaming as appropriate.Well, maybe a C program execing mv/cp/ln would be easier to maintain than a shell script regarding portability ... ;-)
Sure. But shell would be a good prototype for this at least. Also having scripts like this portable to the vast majority of shells would be a good source of robust shell examples that use coreutils to the fullest. They would also ensure to some extent that we were providing appropriate interfaces from the C utilities, to be robustly and efficiently used by shell scripts. cheers, Pádraig.
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