Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget?

Re:Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget? by RiderOfGiraffes on Thursday March 04, 2010 @07:15AM (#1166706)

This item has prompted me to investigate the strace command. It's one to put in the bag of things to try on occasion to make sure I don't forget it.

In the BUGS section of the man page you can find these items (amongst others):

  A traced process ignores SIGSTOP except on SVR4 platforms.

Hmm. That's useful to note.

  A traced process which tries to block SIGTRAP will be sent 
  a SIGSTOP in an attempt to force continuation of tracing.

I can understand that, although it could be surprising in practice for the unwary.

  A traced process runs slowly.

Understandable.

  Traced processes which are descended from command may be
  left running after an interrupt signal (CTRL-C).

That's definitely worth knowing.

  On Linux, exciting as it would be, tracing the init process
  is forbidden.

Damn.

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Re:Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget? by jrockway on Friday March 05, 2010 @06:38PM (#1170807)

On Linux, exciting as it would be, tracing the init process is forbidden.

But of course, nothing is stopping you from commenting this check out.

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