Comment 8 for bug 64067

Binary package hint: coreutils

Hello.
First sorry for my english, but it is not my native langage.

I'm a shelluser, and in my every day utilisation I copy and move some files, and some of them are big (>500Mo for example). So i was searching for progress bar with indication of the pourcentage and something like 34Mo/400Mo, like wget. On linuxfr.org (http://linuxfr.org/~pascalscl/13847.html) i found a discution about that, and i discover a secret option for 'cp' : the -g (for --gauge). I discover too a bug report about that on the archive of the Bug-coreutils mailing list (http://<email address hidden>/msg00610.html).
But it appear that this patch isn't present in the various release of coreutils on Ubuntu.

I know that isn't a bug, and I know that isn't a vital part of the coreutils. But I'm persuaded that the gauge is an interesant evolution for the tools 'cp' and 'mv'. For all the shelluser around the world i think it will be a good comfort to facilitate their utilisation of the shell.

So my question is : what about a future integration of a progress bar in some tools in the coreutils ?

Thank you for your patience :)

Regards.

Hari Seldon (illovae)