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Re:Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget? by metabrew on Thursday March 04, 2010 @07:01AM (#1166683)
Nice hack. Hacks involving strace and awk are fun, the only thing that could have improved this is to somehow involve netcat too.
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Re:Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget? by Estragon on Thursday March 04, 2010 @08:42AM (#1166860)
...somehow involve netcat too.

I was thinking of slowing the copy operation down a bit more by roundtripping it through Australia...

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