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Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying?

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On 2013-04-17, Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:38:08 GMT, unruh wrote:
>> On 2013-04-17, www <xsli2@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>> I am copying a lot of files from one place to another. It would be helpful for me to know it has finished 20%, 30%, 90% etc. Is there a way to know that?
>
> I have no experience with it, you might try pv
>
> $ man pv 
> PV(1)                                                User Manuals                                                PV(1)
>
> NAME
>        pv - monitor the progress of data through a pipe
>
> SYNOPSIS
>        pv [OPTION] [FILE]...
>        pv [-h|-V]
>
> DESCRIPTION
>        pv allows a user to see the progress of data through a
>        pipeline, by giving information such as time elapsed,
>        percentage completed (with progress bar), current throughput
>        rate, total data transferred, and ETA.
>
>        To use it, insert it in a pipeline between two processes, with
>        the appropriate options.  Its standard input will be passed
>        through to its standard output and progress will be shown on
>        standard error.
>
>        pv will copy each supplied FILE in turn to standard output (-
>        means standard input), or if no FILEs are speci??? fied just
>        standard input is copied. This is the same behaviour as cat(1).
>
>        A simple example to watch how quickly a file is transferred using nc(1):
>
>               pv file | nc -w 1 somewhere.com 3000

I've used it.  It's pretty good for the intended purpose.

-- 
Robert Riches
spamtrap42@jacob21819.net
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is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? www <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-17 11:45 -0700
  Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-04-17 20:31 +0100
  Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-04-17 20:38 +0000
    Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2013-04-17 16:07 -0500
      Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2013-04-18 11:29 +0200
        Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-04-18 15:44 +0000
          Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2013-04-18 18:38 +0200
            Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-04-18 16:50 +0000
              Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2013-04-18 23:32 +0200
                Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2013-04-18 23:13 +0000
                Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-04-19 08:57 +0100
                Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2013-04-19 13:31 +0200
    Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2013-04-17 22:23 +0000
      Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2013-04-18 03:53 +0000
  Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? "Chris F.A. Johnson" <cfajohnson@gmail.com> - 2013-04-17 16:53 -0400
    Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2013-04-19 01:05 +0000
      Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2013-04-23 15:23 +0100
  Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2013-04-17 22:44 +0000
    Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2013-04-17 23:04 +0000
  Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress  of   copying? Fritz Wuehler <fritz@spamexpire-201304.rodent.frell.theremailer.net> - 2013-04-20 00:37 +0200
    Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress  of copying? Aragorn <stryder@telenet.be.invalid> - 2013-04-20 18:21 +0200
    Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress  of   copying? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2013-04-21 03:41 +0000
  Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? www <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2013-04-22 05:36 -0700
    Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? root <NoEMail@home.org> - 2013-04-22 14:55 +0000
    Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk> - 2013-04-22 16:11 +0100
    Re: is there a cp command feature showing the percentage progress of copying? Kirk_Von_Rockstein <Kirk_Von_Rockstein@nowhere.invalid> - 2013-04-22 17:36 +0000

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