> I am working on a patch to cp (and eventually mv) that provides a status > output with speed and eta etc. This is standard with most gui file
Why don't you use a gui file manager then? Something a la rpm -h should be possible, but moving bars type of things may quickly require terminal control, i.e. ncurses, which is not acceptable for cp. There already is such a thing btw, it's called scp. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.orcon.net.nz/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
