frenchn00b wrote: > Indeed it would be so cool to get a progress bar You can always create a script or alias that provides you with a progress bar if you want it. But for the rest of us it is better to use rsync and keep cp on focus.
> CP is faster and more secured than rsync, Is that true? At diffent times different people have benchmarked cp and rsync faster and slower than each other. My own experience is that they are different tools and I don't normally consider them alternatives for each other. But I refute that cp is more secure than rsync. They are both the same security for copying local files. > a progress bar or info to cp would be so cool > cp --progress source target This is discussed often upstream. Here is a search page that finds many postings about it. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=cp+progress+bar&submit=Search&idxname=bug-coreutils But I don't think it is a good idea to add this complexity to cp especially when it is already available in rsync. Instead simply use rsync. If cp had all of the options that everyone suggested then it would be the same as the rsync command. In that case just use rsync. :-) Also there are several reasonable suggestions to use a progress bar utility that wraps cp without modifying it. Debian has the 'bar' utility readily available. There have been suggestions to use pre-linking to obtain progress bars without modifying cp. I still think they are more complicated than simply using rsync however. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
