Pádraig Brady wrote:
Note there have been a few patches to add progress bars to cp/mv. For e.g..: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-12/msg00212.html However you can use `rsync -aP my_file my_file.2` to copy locally with progress.
FWIW, I most often would find a progress bar for *rm* useful :-). (I do a lot of 'rm -rf huge-dir' on e.g. build or install dirs of things like Qt and KDE, which can take quite some time. Enough that I wrote a script to filter 'rm -v' into something less verbose, except that -v slows things down quite a bit :-(.)
The only instance where I want progress for cp is when pulling off my digital camera (raws off of an 8 gb card can take some time), but I've already written a script for that which works nicely except for being block-buffered*... but I will look at replacing that with rsync.
(* what happened to adding a coreutil to fix this, did it ever happen?) -- Matthew Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. -- "Still the prettiest." -- Legolas (as quoted in The Very Secret Diaries by Cassandra Claire) http://www.ealasaid.com/misc/vsd/ _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
