Thank you very much all. I am gonna try out the mentioned things tonight! Regards, Abhilash Mhaisne
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Stephane Chazelas < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > >
