Seather wrote: > Some time ago, I found information online somewhere (It might have been > the GNU mailing lists) about a patch for cp that adds a -D switch that > shows a progress indicator.
Have you considered using 'rsync' for that purpose? It includes a kitchen sink of options. rsync --progress file1 file2 > I was trying to check the mailing list archives, but the links were dead > (returned 500). This just came up in another thread. The hostnames changed from mail.gnu.org to lists.gnu.org. You did not say where your links pointed. But I believe Paul just fixed the web page on www.gnu.org. > Any idea where I will be able to find this patch or information on this? Perhaps these will be of interest: Subject: New utility pb (patch included) http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00071.html Subject: copy.c: progress info http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2003-12/msg00094.html Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
