Re: Bug in 'mv -g'?

[Philip Rowlands]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, Tom van Leeuwen wrote:

> The man pages of the 'mv' command say that bugs can be reported to 
> this email address. I am running gentoo and I have coreutils version 
> 5.93 installed.
>
> I always used the command 'cp -g' and 'mv -g' because I like progress 
> bars. cp -g still works, but when I 'mv -g' something large from the 
> root partition to a mounted samba drive, I don't get a progress bar. I 
> know that this always did work.

The '-g' flag for cp and mv is not part of GNU coreutils; is it a Gentoo 
addition? This issue would be best reported through the distro's 
bug-tracking system.


Cheers,
Phil