>> Calling the commands by their plain name instead of the macros
>> is only available in the {pre,do,post}-* targets. For all other
>> targets, you should still use the macros.
> This seems confusing. I would rather see consistiency.
Just IMHO - too much non-alphabetic symbols like $ { } [ ] ( ) % @
etc. makes the program ugly and hard to read. Using plain cp/pax
etc. looks much better provided that these names refer to the good
real programs and this should be garanteed (and it is AFAIU).
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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.