Fileutils Progress Bar Patch
The Fileutils Progressbar Patch is an extension to the
GNU File Utilities which are the basic file-manipulation
utilities of the GNU operating system. It provides a
progressbar for the following tools supplied with the GNU File Utilities:
- cp - Copies files.
- mv - Moves files.
- rm - Removes files.
Downloading
There are patches for different versions of the fileutils package in the
archive:
- fileutils-4.1
- fileutils-4.1.8 ( not ready yet )
Older versions can be found here.
The latest released version is:
Installing
First get the source code of a version of the GNU fileutils
which can be found in the subdirectory /gnu/fileutils on one of
the GNU mirrors. It has
to correspond with one of the patch versions.Unpack the compressed
fileutils archive and apply the patch as follows:
cd fileutils-VERSION/
patch -p0 < /PATH/TO/fileutils-VERSION-progressbar-VERSION.patch
Before you start to configure the package please find out where your
distribution has placed the fileutils executables and pass the path to
the --bindir option of configure. In most cases the directory
is /bin, but who knows. Otherwise it might happen that you end up with
two versions of the fileutils. Now you are ready to configure and
compile the source.
./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin
make
make install
Using
For testing, cp should be the most suitable one.First invoke
cp with the --help Option. There should appear a new
Option -B (--progressbar) near the end of the help
menu. Now try to copy some files but take larger ones - a few kilobytes
aren't worth it ;) If you like it, an entry in your ~/.bashrc
simplifies matters :
alias cp='cp -B'
alias mv='mv -B'
alias rm='rm -B'
Bugs
Please send bug reports or comments to
progressbar@aichler.net
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