[arch-dev-public] [Feature Request] add -g option for cp and mv

[Dan McGee]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Roman Kyrylych
<roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/28 Andrea Scarpino <bash.lnx at gmail.com>:
>> Hi DEVs,
>> I saw '-g' option in copy and move commands in Gentoo.
>> I want to request the same feauture for own coreutils package.
>> I updated the gentoo patch [1] for coreutils 6.12, then I added the
>> patch to PKGBUILD and it works.
>>
>> -g option add a progress bar like as wget style when copy or move files.
>>
>> $ cp -g iso/CoD_CD1.iso ~/Desktop/
>> CoD_CD1.iso
>>                                         |  33% |   656 MiB |    28
>> MiB/s | ETA 00:00.15
>>
>> What do you think about?
>>
>> PS. I opened a FR [2] in bugs some minutes ago. You can get PKGBUILD and patch.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> - [1] http://svn.pardus.org.tr/viewcvs/stable/pardus-1/system/base/coreutils/files/coreutils-gen-progress-bar.patch?revision=7276&root=pardus&view=markup&pathrev=7276
>> - [2] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11603
>
> You risk to be flamed. ;-)
> I doubt most devs will agree about this due to
> "stay as close to vanilla as possible, with bugfixes only" policy.
> This patch is just an extra feature, not merged by upstream.
> And there are more generic ways to add progressbars to console utils.
> For example:
> bar - http://www.theiling.de/projects/bar.html
> pv - http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml
> both are in community, and I saw 2 or 3 other similar utils somewhere
> on the web.

Same thought here. No need to patch coreutils from our end, this is
upstream's job.

-Dan