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, ****************************** Braga, Bruno http://www.brunobraga.net bruno.braga@xxxxxxxxx ******************************* "The future belongs to people who see possibilities before they become obvious!." -- Ted Levitt 2009/11/1 Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@xxxxxxx>: > "BRAGA, Bruno" <bruno.braga@xxxxxxxxx> 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. > > -- > Best regards, _ _ > .o. | Liege of Serenly Enlightened Majesty of o' \,=./ `o > ..o | Computer Science, Michal "mina86" Nazarewicz (o o) > ooo +--<mina86*tlen.pl>--<jid:mina86*jabber.org>--ooO--(_)--Ooo-- > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-console" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
