Feature requests: cp & mv progress bar

[doronbehar]

GNU's coreutils project has rejected this feature since day 1, see: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2015-09/msg00008.html . There's a crafty patch written for it but today it failed me when I copied a directory with very special characters such as [{[&d.* it didn't know how to handle.

I was wondering whether you'd consider implementing this feature.

[ArniDagur]

I'd be open to this extension if it were opt in. Perhaps a command line flag such as --progress-bar could be used, similar to other tool's --color flag. An environment variable might work also.

@doronbehar Have you looked at https://github.com/tarka/xcp?

[doronbehar]

Have you looked at https://github.com/tarka/xcp?

Seems like an interesting project, with progress bar and performance enhancments over GNU's coreutils. Have you ever borrowed or considered borrowing ideas from there?

[Arcterus]

I agree that it's got some good ideas. Unfortunately, it's GPL, so at most we will be able to borrow ideas. When cp is eventually refactored, we'll probably borrow some of them.

I think progress bars have been requested before. I am happy to add it as an optional flag (like --progress-bar as mentioned above).

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[doronbehar]

Nothing new to add here, but still a feature that would be nice to have.

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[ycd]

There is indicatif and pb, both licensed with MIT. It would be very easy to implement for mv and cp as far as i have seen. Only thing i'm concerned about they are going to increase the executable size,

On the other hand features like this are joy to use, imagine having exa instead of ls, procs instead of ps, bat instead of cat, ripgrep instead of grep on your brand-new OS, that would be freaking cool.

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