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
