cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libbb/Config.in b/libbb/Config.in
index 0ad4381d9..9389fe808 100644
--- a/libbb/Config.in
+++ b/libbb/Config.in
@@ -102,6 +102,21 @@ config FEATURE_EDITING_FANCY_PROMPT
           Setting this option allows for prompts to use things like \w and
           \$ and escape codes.
 
+config FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE
+        bool "Give more precise messages when copy fails (cp, mv etc)"
+        default n
+        help
+          Error messages with this feature enabled:
+            $ cp file /does_not_exist/file
+            cp: cannot create '/does_not_exist/file': Path does not exist
+            $ cp file /vmlinuz/file
+            cp: cannot stat '/vmlinuz/file': Path has non-directory component
+          If this feature is not enabled, they will be, respectively:
+            cp: cannot remove '/does_not_exist/file': No such file or directory
+            cp: cannot stat '/vmlinuz/file': Not a directory
+          respectively.
+          This will cost you ~60 bytes.
+
 config FEATURE_COPYBUF_KB
         int "Copy buffer size, in kilobytes"
         range 1 1024