scrouthtv/easy-copy

Aims to provide a user-friendly & fast alternative to coreutils' cp, mv and rf

easy-copy's Issues

Improve user friendliness

• check if enough space is free during copy process (not cross-platform https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20108520/get-amount-of-free-disk-space-using-go )
• configurable buffer size
• auto-adjust buffer size
• copy-on-write support = reflink, not interested
• output warning not error on missing file (configurable)
• Implement all the flags coreutils' cp / mv / rm has as well
• dry-run
• manpage
• infopage https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/164443/how-to-create-info-documentation
• command-line switch to ignore config
• use stdout & stderr
• --color flag
• quiet flag, separate verbose & debug
• exit codes, don't exit on errors but skip
• default options, e. g. --color is the same as --color=always or --reflink is the same as --reflink=always
• formattable output / last line
• colour

Code Cleanup

• Remove the dependency to viper
• Modular compilation support
• All user communication (e. g. fmt) should be in ui.go

"OPERATION"???

As of today, this is the entirety of what the --help output says:

EasyCopy v1.0.0

Usage:
  ec OPERATION [options] source target
  ec OPERATION [options] source ... directory
  ec --help
  ec --version

These options are supported:
  -f, --force        overwrite existing files without asking 
  -i, --interactive  ask before overwriting a file 
  -n, --no-clobber   skip existing files 

      --no-config    don't read any config file 
  -V, --verbose      verbose mode 
  -q, --quiet        quiet mode 
      --color=WHEN   whether to colorize the output.
                     WHEN can be 'always', 'auto' (default) or 'never' 

  -h, --help         print this help and exit 
  -v, --version      print version information and exit 

This is free software licensed under the MIT License.
You are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions,
refer to the license file that is distributed with this software.

Extensive documentation can be accessed through the manpages.

It doesn't list the available "OPERATION"s, and as an Arch Linux user I am out of luck, because the PKGBUILD for this program in AUR (mentioned in the README, which suggests that it might be officially-ish supported) doesn't bundle the manpages in the package (man ec shows help for unrelated openssl ec command).

I think you should do one of the following:

• list supported OPERATIONs in the --help output,
• list supported OPERATIONs in the error message shown upon invoking ec without specifying an operation
• list supported OPERATIONs in the README
• add --list-operations flag or something like that, and mention it in the output of --help and/or the error message

Custom features

• After --help or similar is called, following arguments are ignored
• options to ignore empty directories
• retry reading a file 3 times if an error occures
• timeout if less than 8 bytes have been transferred in 10 seconds
• when asking for overwriting a file, skip this file for now and start a different one in the background
• open a conflicting file in diff / $EDITOR
• default perms
• don't wait for enter in overwrite dialog
• create sample config file only if ran with --help option
• skip & delete source

Folder is both in source and dest

Overwriting

• basic overwriting
• delete link before recreating

Reflinking support on mac os

Reflink support has been introduced in 173e106. Currently, reflinks are only supported for basic files (not links) on Unix.

Does mac os / darwin have reflink support too? (Call for testers)

Overwriting is broken

When overwriting
old.txt
with
new.txt
there's trailing content from the old file

Windows Support

• Config files in Windows paths
• Support for color codes in third-party console emulators
• Testing (speed, Windows 7)