2015-08-31 11:50:36 +0100, Pádraig Brady: > On 31/08/15 06:57, Abhilash Mhaisne wrote: > > Hey all. > > > > When the cp or mv command is executed, no progress of copying is shown. > > The verbose option shows the source and destination, but not the progress. > > > > In the wget tool, download progress is shown. Can we have the similar > > feature integrated on cp and mv? > > This comes up periodically. > > The current thinking is that often you don't know ahead > of time that the file is large or the transport is slow, > and so an external utility to query the progress would > be a more general solution. I.E. something like: > https://github.com/Xfennec/progress > > Also one can use rsync to get that functionality. [...]
I's also a FAQ on unix.stackexchange.com https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/66795/how-to-check-progress-of-running-cp https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/65077/is-it-possible-to-see-cp-speed-and-copied https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/110250/can-i-copy-a-folder-with-a-progress-bar https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/2577/how-can-i-move-files-and-view-the-progress-e-g-with-a-progress-bar https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/39059/is-there-a-command-line-utility-that-copy-files-with-progress-information https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/15655/why-doesnt-cp-have-a-progress-bar-like-wget https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/68582/how-to-see-the-total-progress-while-copying-the-files https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/56047/pv-for-directory-copy https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/1537/measure-pipe-throughput-in-the-shell (at least one of them answered by you BTW). Another option is to go with something like: tar | pv | tar -- Stephane
