On 03/29/2017 09:12 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 29/03/17 06:47, Nellis, Kenneth (Conduent) wrote: >> Wondering if there's any support to add a -v, --verbose >> option to touch. When I'm doing non-trivial file management >> with utilities, e.g., rm, rmdir, mv, cp, rename, touch, I >> typically use -v, but touch doesn't offer -v, which I find >> distracting and annoying. > > This was previous discussed at: > https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#touch
What are you hoping to be printed? Just the names of the files touched (already doable by echoing to see what command line you would otherwise be using)? A notice whether files were created (as mentioned in the link above, that's a bit racy, and still somewhat can already be done with existing tools). Or are you hoping for more, such as what timestamp was requested, and/or what actual (courser-resolution) timestamp was actually applied? _That_ might be useful information, especially in the face of touch --reference. Also, now that we have 'date --debug', and 'touch -d' uses the same date parser engine, I wonder if we should add a 'touch --debug -d' option that uses the same date debugging code? Again, particularly true since we allow 'touch --reference -d $relative', as a cool feature that date alone cannot yet do. -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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