Bug 80806 – mv (sys-apps/coreutils) -g option does not function

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78188
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jory A. Pratt 2005-02-04 15:59:34 UTC]

when using -g switch with mv (-g = progress bar) nothing is displayed however using --pregress does show the progress bar. The -g switch is suppose to be short for --progress

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. mv -g filename /location/new (must be larger file)
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
no progress bar displayed when using -g

Expected Results:  
progressbar should be working as --progress does and -g is a simple switch for it.

Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.3,
glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686)
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System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP2200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.9
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jan 29 2005, 23:20:58)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.9.4, 1.8.5-r3
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r2
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.8.1-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer
-fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control
/var/vpopmail/domains /var/vpopmail/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -ftracer
-fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig candy ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://open-systems.ufl.edu/mirrors/gentoo
http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 3dnow X alsa apache2 avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups dvd dvdr
encode esd f77 fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 imagemagick
imap imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg
mysql ncurses nls nowin nptl nptlonly oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl php
png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype
truetype-fonts type1-fonts userlocales xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-02-04 16:12:28 UTC]

according to the man page there is no -g option

[Comment 2 Jory A. Pratt 2005-02-04 16:17:40 UTC]

omfg would you check mv --help for once you depend on too much from man pages. This is a patch applied by gentoo for progressbar 

[Comment 3 Jory A. Pratt 2005-02-04 16:26:30 UTC]

I suppose we could include the man page missing -g --progress in the report as well. 

[Comment 4 J.T Hill 2005-02-04 16:34:15 UTC]

I can confirm this is a bug in mv and man page is missing info about the progress bar patch that is applied during build of coreutils.

[Comment 5 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-02-04 16:39:37 UTC]

oh, indeed

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2005-02-04 20:48:32 UTC]

works fine for me, but i havent tried copying large files (2gig+), just something in the range of a few hundred meg

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78188 ***