Bob, Thanks very much for your answer.
I use wildcards for copying alphabetical, but it would be much more easy to copying alphabetical with -r option. I mean, I have directories like "artist/album"; with wildcards, I can copy alphabetical all the songs, but I have to create all the directories before (or use a script to do that). If there was an option for copying alphabetical, I could copy all the albums of an artist, or various artist with one command. For example, "cp -r -alphabetical artist1 /media/disk", would copy all the albums from artist1 at once, alphabetically. I know that many music players play the songs in the order of their names, but I don't have problem with that, because my files have the track number at the beggining of their name. Thanks, tizo On 6/19/07, Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Andrés Ghigliazza wrote: > It would be useful to me, that cp has an option to copy files > alphabetical. By default cp used with shell wildcards will already copy files alphabetically due to the shell's sorting of file globs when they are expanded. Example: mkdir test cd test touch aaa zzz bbb echo cp * /tmp/ cp aaa bbb zzz /tmp/ The files presented to cp by the shell's file glob are sorted. Is this not what you are seeing? If not could you debug why not? This is a feature of the shell and is influenced by the 'locale' setting when you started the shell. The locale setting defines the character collation sequence sort order. > The reason is, that there are some portable music players that, play > the songs in the order that were copied to its flash memory. Interesting. Most music players that I have encountered play them in the order of sorted filenames. Therefore a common need is to rename the files into "playlist" order with a leading sort-forcing string. Bob
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