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bug#19456: GNU coreutils - touch / add -v, --verbose option
From: |
jari |
Subject: |
bug#19456: GNU coreutils - touch / add -v, --verbose option |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Dec 2014 13:50:02 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) |
On 2014-12-28 11:45, Pádraig Brady wrote:
| On 28/12/14 08:33, Jari Aalto wrote:
| >
| > It would be nice to see progress of touched files. Please
| > add option[1]:
| >
| > -v, --verbose
| >
| > Jari
| >
| > [1] Not included in touch(1), GNU coreutils 8.23
|
| Maybe. What's your use case exactly.
To see progress of touched files. With wild cards, it's usually
not obvious what files were affected.
| In other tools that have --verbose output,
| there is the opportunity to distinguish operations,
| or identify when possible long running operations are finished.
| Neither is the case though for touch.
|
| If you just wanted to see each block of files
| that touch is processing, perhaps using tee would suffice like?
|
| find ... | tee /dev/tty | xargs touch ...
This isn't really user friendly to use.
The --verbose option would be perfect.
Jari