Re: feature requests: trunc and maybe cmddiff

[Matthew Woehlke]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Note there have been a few patches to add progress bars to cp/mv. For e.g..:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-12/msg00212.html
> However you can use `rsync -aP my_file my_file.2` to copy locally with progress.

FWIW, I most often would find a progress bar for *rm* useful :-). (I do 
a lot of 'rm -rf huge-dir' on e.g. build or install dirs of things like 
Qt and KDE, which can take quite some time. Enough that I wrote a script 
to filter 'rm -v' into something less verbose, except that -v slows 
things down quite a bit :-(.)

The only instance where I want progress for cp is when pulling off my 
digital camera (raws off of an 8 gb card can take some time), but I've 
already written a script for that which works nicely except for being 
block-buffered*... but I will look at replacing that with rsync.

(* what happened to adding a coreutil to fix this, did it ever happen?)

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