Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> ha escrit: >> Since the above behavior is not specified by POSIX, and >> is IMHO, counter-intuitive, I propose to change it. However, >> it is documented both in coreutils and in cpio's manuals. > > I'm not particularly bound to this feature, but it was here for such a > long time that removing it now will break a lot of existing scripts and > force many people to change their habits. I'd rather not do it.
Thanks for all the feedback. Obviously, with so many people actually using it, I won't change the behavior.