Re: feature requests: trunc and maybe cmddiff

[Pádraig Brady]

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> 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?)

Are you talking about stdbuf?
That's on the way soon.

cheers,
Pádraig.