Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: coreutils

Hello.
First sorry for my english, but it is not my native langage.

I'm a shelluser, and in my every day utilisation I copy and move some files, 
and some of them are big (>500Mo for example). So i was searching for progress 
bar with indication of the pourcentage and something like 34Mo/400Mo, like 
wget. On linuxfr.org (http://linuxfr.org/~pascalscl/13847.html) i found a 
discution about that, and i discover a secret option for 'cp' : the -g (for 
--gauge). I discover too a bug report about that on the archive of the 
Bug-coreutils mailing list 
(http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-coreutils@gnu.org/msg00610.html).
But it appear that this patch isn't present in the various release of coreutils 
on Ubuntu.

I know that isn't a bug, and I know that isn't a vital part of the
coreutils. But I'm persuaded that the gauge is an interesant evolution
for the tools 'cp' and 'mv'. For all the shelluser around the world i
think it will be a good comfort to facilitate their utilisation of the
shell.

So my question is : what about a future integration of a progress bar in
some tools in the coreutils ?

Thank you for your patience :)

Regards.

Hari Seldon (illovae)

** Affects: coreutils (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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a progress bar for 'cp' and 'mv'
https://launchpad.net/bugs/64067

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