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Re:Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget? by yellowbkpk on Thursday March 04, 2010 @06:34AM (#1166652)
I use rsync --progress as a cp replacement when I feel like I need to know how the cp is going.
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Re:Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget? by erso on Thursday March 04, 2010 @10:27PM (#1168741)
I use rsync -avzP exclusively now over cp ever since I tried copying ~7000 files from a USB drive and found cp choked less than 10% through. rsync is wonderful.
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Re:Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget? by leif on Friday March 05, 2010 @02:34AM (#1169009)
The -z flag to rsync is not always the best choice, specifically when copying within one machine.
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