Benjamin Schieder wrote: > > I frequently move large files from one disk to another and I wanted > to see how much was copied already. Some friends of mine also > wanted this feature and urged me to send the patch here.
Thanks for sharing your patch with the mailing list. It is most appreciated with people show and share their code. > Brief description: > > # cp -D large_file /another/disk > > `large_file': 1% copied\r`large_file': 2% copied\r Have you looked at the 'rsync' command? It provides this functionality and more. http://rsync.samba.org The core utilities such as cp, mv, rm, are required utilities on /bin on all systems. Therefore extra care needs to be taken that they don't bloat too much. It reduces their ability to be useful on a wide range of platforms. Already there are other programs such as busybox which implies that the core utilities are too bloated already. And if this functionality were added to cp it would imply that other commands such as mv also needed the same functionality added to them as well multiplying the problem. I would prefer not to see this type of functionality added to the utils. Especially since the same type of functionality already exists in the 'rsync' command. The 'rsync' command provides a wide range of additional functionality such as this over the 'cp' command. The two commands supliment each other very nicely. Bob
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