The answer, for about 99% of typical unix shell switches
and flags, is "no".
The interface to DS, aka nmsh, aka "nightmare shell" is nowhere
near as powerful and functional as normal unix shells, largely
because MudOS is just an application, and is not required to do as
much as a full operating system. As a virtual machine, its needs
are taken care of by the underlying OS, and the mud's comparatively
simpler file handling requirements are mediated that way.
Further, the complicated standard file permissions and attributes
system of the typical unix os is not useful within the mud, so
there's no need to replicate that kind of functionality.
In the mud, most of the options available to commands in unix
would be very very very rarely, if ever used. So you can pretty
much expect that a command which emulates a unix function
(such as cp) does so in a very vague and abstracted way.
You can usually find out what options a command *will* take
by reading its help info, for example:
help ls
Will tell you about what you can do with that command.
Note that in the alpha lib, "cp" and "mv" take the -f switch to
force overwrites.
