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| From | Newyana2 <newyana@invalid.nospam> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.os.windows-10 |
| Subject | Re: what is the fastest command line copy? |
| Date | 2025-04-02 13:07 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 4/2/2025 12:36 PM, Paul wrote:
> On Wed, 4/2/2025 11:03 AM, Newyana2 wrote:
>
>>
>> What kinds of things do you do that need console reporting
>> mid-script?
>>
>
> For long running scripts, you could use a bit of progress indication.
> What percent done.
>
> In the old days, this was the entering of dots on the screen.
> And my favorites were always the programming efforts where
> the "dots went off the side of the screen". Such attention
> to detail :-) The people doing that, didn't know the terminal
> in that case, didn't have autowrap. (Yes, there were actually
> terminal emulators *that* crude.)
>
> In my Robocopy command, you can see I like to use the output
> as a form of progress indication, as well as making a
> permanent log.
>
> robocopy Y:\ F:\ /mir /COPYALL /dcopy:t /XJ /r:3 /w:2 /zb /np /tee /v /log:robocopy_y_to_f.log
>
> /tee # Log to screen, log to file
> /v # Verbose
> /log:robocopy_y_to_f.log # Each run gets a logfile (for unique src:dest pairs)
>
> You don't actually look at that. The idea is, you open a Terminal, paste
> the command, then... watch that the run has started OK. Iconify. Open
> the Terminal after ten minutes, inspect and see it's still on target.
> Iconify. You can use Task Manager or the disk LED, to identify the
> command is thoroughly done.
>
> Paul
>
I haven't really run into such situations. On rare occasions I
might have a script where I'm surprised at the slow speed. But
I just optimize as much as possible and live with it. Usually scripts
like that are one-time operations.
I have found some surprising details about speed with VBS.
For example, with a lot of text it's much faster to put each small
string into an array and then run a Join than to keep concatenating
little strings past the point of petty cash memory reserveed by WSH.
Another surprising difference is that if a lot of string operations
are to be done then it's good to convert it to UCase or LCase
first.
Once I've done those kinds of optimizations, and I know the
script works, I'm happy to just let it do its work. I don't need
to see a progress bar. I could, theoretically, set up a GUI progress
bar, but even if I cared, getting accurate percentage of progress
is usually not possible.
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