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FAQ: add progress-bar question for cp,mv,dd
From: |
Assaf Gordon |
Subject: |
FAQ: add progress-bar question for cp,mv,dd |
Date: |
Wed, 2 Sep 2015 15:51:37 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Hello,
Related to: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-08/msg00036.html
What do you think about the following wording for a new FAQ entry:
---
Q.
Please add progress bar to cp/mv/dd
A.
Progress bar for cp,mv commands has been deemed unwarranted.
see
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#cp">reject
requests for cp</a>
and <a
href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-08/msg00036.html">previous
discussions</a>.
The recommended way to copy files with progress information is to use
`rsync` :
$ rsync -P srcfile dstfile
For dd, starting coreutils version 8.24 (released on July 2015) dd has a
new option `status=progress` to print progress information. See
<a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-07/msg00056.html">short
tutorial</a>
and
<a
href="http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=af2a4ed22594badd2719c0123441d69b17bd8328">commit</a>.
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Also,
Attached is a small patch for the FAQ html page, to add anchors to the
program sections (this way we can point to the specific program's
rejected ideas).
regards,
- assaf
rejected-requests-add-anchors.patch
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