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
