Re: Bug in 'mv -g'?

[Tom van Leeuwen]

Mike Frysinger schreef:
> 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
>   
Alright,

I will file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.
Thanks for your reply.

Greetings,
Tom