On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 11:28 PM, Bob Proulx <[email protected]> wrote:

> Henrik Juul Pedersen wrote:
> > Lokesh Walase wrote:
> > > I am interested in adding "progress bar" feature to "cp" and "mv"
> commands.
> > > For this I downloaded the latest source code GNU-coreutils-8.21.
> >
> > A progress bar is somewhat intrusive to the copy command, but patches and
> > tools exist already.
>
> Adding this just so this thread contains a reference to rsync which
> never turned away an option and already implements this. :-)
>
>   $ rsync --help | grep progress
>        --progress              show progress during transfer
>    -P                          same as --partial --progress
>
> Rsync is already readily available.  As well as being a very good tool
> in general.
>

Hi Bob,
one thing that "rsync" lacks but "cp" has is "interactive" copying ( -i
option ).
And this is a good reason to not use "rsync" but "cp".

>
> Bob
>



-- 
Lokesh Walase

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