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Re:Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget? by gwern on Thursday March 04, 2010 @11:45AM (#1167320)
Some distributions of 'cp' have it built in: https://bugs.launchpad.net/fedora/+source/coreutils/+bug/640...
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Re:Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget? by tesseract on Thursday March 04, 2010 @12:35PM (#1167459)
On some BSDs (including Mac OS X) there is a signal, SIGINFO, to which cp will respond by printing out a status report. You can send this signal by typing ^T.
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Re:Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget? by icco on Thursday March 04, 2010 @12:40PM (#1167475)
Ya. I was also thinking of just coding it and submitting a patch...
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