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#19456
touch: add -v, --verbose option
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Reported by: Jari Aalto <jari.aalto <at> cante.net>
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:34:02 UTC
Severity: wishlist
Tags: wontfix
Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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tags 19456 wontfix
severity 19456 wishlist
retitle 19456 touch: add -v, --verbose option
close 19456
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(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 <jari.aalto <at> cante.net>
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
This bug report was last modified 6 years and 268 days ago.
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