Bug 67217 – Progress bar for coreutils (cp, mv, etc)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Roman Gaufman 2004-10-12 05:22:51 UTC]

This patch seems quite interesting to add a progress bar to cp from coreutils with the -g switch.

Would be nice if this was added to gentoo's coreutils. -- atleast optionally with a use flag.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

[Comment 1 Roman Gaufman 2004-10-12 05:23:12 UTC]

http://www.mail-archive.com/[e-mail]/msg00610.html

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-10-12 06:39:17 UTC]

Created attachment 41616 [details, diff]
progressbar.patch

patch against cvs

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2004-10-12 06:59:45 UTC]

Created attachment 41619 [details, diff]
progressbar.patch

patch against 5.2.1

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-10-12 07:01:47 UTC]

seemant: the second patch would need some work inorder to fit into our current patchsets ... it applies cleanly against vanilla 5.2.1, but not against our patched 5.2.1

it seems the guy sent this patch to the coreutils list and then just never got a response ... perhaps we can pester them into including it ;)

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2004-12-20 05:25:53 UTC]

seems this is already in 5.2.1-r2

[Comment 6 Roman Gaufman 2005-02-07 03:59:54 UTC]

Searching for \-g in man cp finds nothing. cp -gR dir1 dir2 doesnt show any progress either.

Am I missing something?

This is with both 5.2.1-r2 and 5.2.1-r4.

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2005-02-07 05:43:12 UTC]

dont re-open old bugs, file new ones

the patch is in 5.2.1-r4, there were just no hunks which applied against the manpages