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

Re:Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget? by ajross on Thursday March 04, 2010 @12:46PM (#1167493)

Um... in what universe would you want an interactive terminal gadget to become the default implementation of cp? Yikes.

Still, nice pointer to the pv tool, which I hadn't heard of.

Still still, the linked awk snipped is awfully clever and more fun to read.

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Re:Can you get cp to give a progress bar like wget? by philjackson on Thursday March 04, 2010 @01:48PM (#1167683)

What? I think the override is fine in an interactive environment.

My team and I use a hack which overrides cd and as well as calling builtin cd it sources a script if it exists from cwd. This means you can get the exact enviroment you need for that working copy of a project.

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