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Re:Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget? by philjackson on Thursday March 04, 2010 @06:48AM (#1166663)
I like pv and find myself using it when bziping large files (where the blocker is bzip). It must have a negative impact on the speed of a copy.

*Hmmm, I can't back up my own predictions:

    cp huge blah           0.11s user 7.94s system 6% cpu 2:12.54 total
    pv < huge > something  0.12s user 8.10s system 7% cpu 1:54.86 total
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