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Re: Updates on "mv", "cp" commands
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Kamil Dudka |
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Re: Updates on "mv", "cp" commands |
Date: |
Sun, 1 Nov 2009 15:54:15 +0100 |
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On Sunday 01 of November 2009 12:56:45 BRAGA, Bruno wrote:
> I don't know if that's the place to post this question, but I am sure
As good as any.
> someone here will be able to give me hints on how to proceed.
>
> I would like to propose and patch improvements on the "mv" (move) and
> "cp" (copy) commands, by adding options for progress information.
>
> The idea is that any GUI actions already do it graphically, and other
> CLI applications, such as "rsync", have this as an extended option
> "--progress". This is handy for large files processing, for instance.
>
> Can anyone give me a little help? Maybe this is even an old idea that
> was discarded because of performance reasons, I don't know..
Here are some discussions I've met:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=237553
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/64067
http://www.linux-archive.org/archlinux-development/167447-add-g-option-cp-mv.html
Kamil