Re: Bug in 'mv -g'?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 19:03, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> 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?

yes, i'm currently using the -g progress bar patch in Gentoo ... i havent 
gotten around to investigating the proposal from before to implement a 
generic progress bar utility to replace the -g stuff in cp/mv:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-09/msg00101.html
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00071.html

> This issue would be best reported through the distro's 
> bug-tracking system.

yeah, file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ please, this isnt an upstream 
coreutils issue
-mike