Re: progress bar mv cp reconsider

[Mina Morcose Farage]

Thank you for reply i didn't know it's complecated

On 20/02/2022 13:02, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 18/02/2022 15:40, Mina Morcose Farage wrote:
> > i read the rejected future i saw all the threads but i hope if you could
> > reconsider it not all hosts allow root access and they don't include all
> > tools
> >
> > rsync not installed on all hosts and some host may don't want to install
> > it because of verification feature that it have it would put a lot of
> > stress on possessor specially in shared hosts
> >
> > dd working on block level  even if you could copy using it
> >
> > dd is made for specific purpose and it's not suitable replacement to cp
> >
> > beside that there's people who provides patches already
> >
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-09/msg00084.html
> >
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00071.html
> >
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-08/msg00114.html
> >
> > is there is a way to reconsider this feature ?
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> This is still one of those marginal features,
> given it can be implemented as well outside of the utility.
>
> Also we've recently enabled copy offloading by default,
> so we have no visibility into the progress of such copies
> (unless we break up the ranges I suppose but that might not
> be possible depending on the copy backend).
>
> cheers,
> Pádraig