Re: Updates on "mv", "cp" commands

["BRAGA, Bruno" <bruno.braga@gmail.com>]

Thanks for the reply Michal.

I will look into that (I found the source in GNU's source code, but I
am still kinda lost on to whom should I ask stuff, lol). i will let
you know if/when I get things done with the team there.

Cheers,

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2009/11/1 Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@tlen.pl>:
> "BRAGA, Bruno" <bruno.braga@gmail.com> writes:
>> I don't know if that's the place to post this question, but I am sure
>> someone here will be able to give me hints on how to proceed.
>>
>> I would like to propose and patch improvements on the "mv" (move) and
>> "cp" (copy) commands, by adding options for progress information.
>
> That's something I was wondering about some time ago myself.
>
>> The idea is that any GUI actions already do it graphically, and other
>> CLI applications, such as "rsync", have this as an extended option
>> "--progress". This is handy for large files processing, for instance.
>>
>> I looked for the code in the kernel source but I did not find any. I
>> could find some sources on the GNU OS, but I am not sure if that's the
>> right place (probably not).
>
> You won't find any sources of cp or mv in Linux source code because cp
> and mv commands are user space and as such they are not part of Linux
> per se.
>
> If you are using some kind of GNU/Linux distribution the place to look
> is GNU coreutils package.  Consult gnu.org webpage for it's source code
> and information how to submit patches.
>
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