bug#19456: GNU coreutils - touch / add -v, --verbose option

[Assaf Gordon]

tags 19456 wontfix
severity 19456 wishlist
retitle 19456 touch: add -v, --verbose option
close 19456
stop

(triaging old bugs)

Hello,


On 28/12/14 09:35 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Jari Aalto <address@hidden> 
wrote:
>> It would be nice to see progress of touched files. Please
>> add option[1]:

> Hi Jari,
> My preference is to avoid adding the --verbose option
> to programs like touch.

On 30/12/14 07:00 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 12/28/2014 12:50 PM, jari wrote:
> > On 2014-12-28 11:45, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > |   find ... | tee /dev/tty | xargs touch ...
> >
> > This isn't really user friendly to use.
> >
> > The --verbose option would be perfect.
>
> xargs (from GNU findutils) has a --verbose alias -t option:
>
>    $ find ... | xargs --verbose touch

Given the above, and with no further comments in 4 years,
I'm closing this as "wontfix".

Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.


-assaf