Subject: bug#19456: GNU coreutils - touch / add -v, --verbose option

From: jari <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 13:50:02 +0200

On 2014-12-28 11:45, Pádraig Brady wrote:
| On 28/12/14 08:33, Jari Aalto wrote:
| > 
| > It would be nice to see progress of touched files. Please
| > add option[1]:
| > 
| >   -v, --verbose
| > 
| > Jari
| > 
| > [1] Not included in touch(1), GNU coreutils 8.23
| 
| Maybe. What's your use case exactly.

To see progress of touched files. With wild cards, it's usually
not obvious what files were affected.

| In other tools that have --verbose output,
| there is the opportunity to distinguish operations,
| or identify when possible long running operations are finished.
| Neither is the case though for touch.
|
| If you just wanted to see each block of files
| that touch is processing, perhaps using tee would suffice like?
| 
|   find ... | tee /dev/tty | xargs touch ...

This isn't really user friendly to use.

The --verbose option would be perfect.

Jari