Matthew Woehlke wrote: > 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?)
Are you talking about stdbuf? That's on the way soon. cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
