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

From: Assaf Gordon <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2018 15:47:27 -0600

tags 19456 wontfix
severity 19456 wishlist
retitle 19456 touch: add -v, --verbose option
close 19456
stop

(triaging old bugs)

Hello,

On 28/12/14 09:35 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
 > On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Jari Aalto <[email-masked]> 
wrote:
 >> It would be nice to see progress of touched files. Please
 >> add option[1]:

 > Hi Jari,
 > My preference is to avoid adding the --verbose option
 > to programs like touch.

On 30/12/14 07:00 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> On 12/28/2014 12:50 PM, jari wrote:
>> On 2014-12-28 11:45, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> |   find ... | tee /dev/tty | xargs touch ...
>>
>> This isn't really user friendly to use.
>>
>> The --verbose option would be perfect.
> 
> xargs (from GNU findutils) has a --verbose alias -t option:
> 
>    $ find ... | xargs --verbose touch
> 

Given the above, and with no further comments in 4 years,
I'm closing this as "wontfix".

Discussion can continue by replying to this thread.

-assaf