Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc.

Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by jamescun on Saturday July 12, 2014 @06:23AM (#8024180)

For a verbose or simple progress `cp` equivalent I tend to use RSync. Both RedHat/CentOS/etc and Debian/Ubuntu all come with RSync as standard. The only caveat is that I find RSync to be slightly slower than coreutils cp; however you do gain all the advantages of RSync if you then need to sync files across the network for example.

> rsync --progress <source> <destination>

> rsync --progress /home/me/music/*.mp3 /mnt/shared/music

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Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by to3m on Saturday July 12, 2014 @06:29PM (#8025972)

I've found Midnight Commander (https://www.midnight-commander.org/) good if you just need the progress bar. In fact, you get not just one, but TWO - one for the individual file, and one for the transfer as a whole. Perhaps I'm easily pleased, but I find this useful.

(It doesn't do all the rsync fanciness, but if you don't need that and/or you've got some unwieldy subset of files to transfer - a situation the GUI-style approach makes light work of - then it comes in handy.)

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Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by thejosh on Saturday July 12, 2014 @07:36AM (#8024295)

I also like -avh and --stats for rsync, I use rsync many times a day for transferring files and folders across networks. It's brilliant.

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Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by zidar on Saturday July 12, 2014 @06:37AM (#8024195)

It is slightly slover, but one huge benifit is, that you get -P or --partial, which often ends up saving me lots of time.

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