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19th October 2008, 09:07 PM
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Show progress with cp?
If i need to copy a several gig folder with cp, i have no way of telling when it will be done. Is there a way to have it give a status/progress bar?
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19th October 2008, 10:30 PM
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"Several gig folder..."
I know this is probably an incomplete answer and I know you probably have some big files in there, but I prefer using the verbose modes to mv, cp, and rm (so much so that I've gotten in the habit of aliasing those commands to use the -v switch by default).
Try cp -v to show file-by-file progress. Unfortunately, no progress bar. It will just tell you when file x is done and has started working on y. Not exactly what you're looking for, but I use it just to keep some activity on the screen to let me know that the machine and the file copy haven't hung. 
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19th October 2008, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by tjvanwyk
Unfortunately, no progress bar. It will just tell you when file x is done and has started working on y.
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Yeah!, i think, it's very good if you have several gig folders within small files!  (lolololol, it sounds like a pirate MP3 depot! )
bye! 
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19th October 2008, 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by bee
Yeah!, i think, it's very good if you have several gig folders within small files! (lolololol, it sounds like a pirate MP3 depot! )
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Come on... some people have totally legitimate music libraries...
(looks around suspiciously)
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19th October 2008, 10:49 PM
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Now, since I totally suck at anything shell, how would I set this up for .bashrc?
cat $1 | pv -s -L $size -p -e -r > $2... uhh, yeah, I have a feeling that's not right. :\
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So uninteresting...
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19th October 2008, 10:59 PM
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Now, since I totally suck at anything shell, how would I set this up for .bashrc?
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alias foobar = 'that big long command'
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EDIT:
Oh, wait. That wouldn't work because the source/destination file names aren't always going to be the same... Nevermind. Proceed to ignore me, now.
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