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

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 11:45:00 +0000

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.
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 ...

cheers,
Pádraig.