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 stanzheng on Saturday July 12, 2014 @11:29AM (#8024787)

Anyone know a similar tool available to OSX or if its feasible to port or recreate this for MAC?

I'm not too familiar with what file libs or utils can be used to handle this as the author says this relies on a linux specific header file and tool.

See https://github.com/Xfennec/cv/issues/6

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Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by lobster_johnson on Saturday July 12, 2014 @11:59AM (#8024867)

Entirely feasible, as far as I know; OS X lets you discover processes and access their devices. OS X, being BSD-based, doesn't have a /proc file system; instead, you have to use sysctl() to get at the data.

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Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by gaadd33 on Saturday July 12, 2014 @11:38AM (#8024811)

Just hit ctrl-t to get status on OS X.

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Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by mef on Saturday July 12, 2014 @05:27PM (#8025832)

ctrl+t doesn't show percent complete

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Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by AdamGibbins on Saturday July 12, 2014 @11:15PM (#8026521)

Yes it does

  aeg@bigwibble ~/ % cp bigfile /Volumes/data_sd1
  load: 1.60  cmd: cp 17686 uninterruptible 0.00u 0.09s
  bigfile -> /Volumes/data_sd1/bigfile   1%

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Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by mef on Sunday July 13, 2014 @12:13PM (#8027752)

Here's me hitting it 4 times:

    [/tmp]$ cp bigfile bigfile2
    load: 1.78  cmd: gcp 93420 running 0.00u 0.04s
    load: 1.78  cmd: gcp 93420 running 0.00u 0.10s
    load: 1.80  cmd: gcp 93420 uninterruptible 0.00u 0.16s
    load: 1.80  cmd: gcp 93420 uninterruptible 0.00u 0.26s
    [/tmp]$

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Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by gaadd33 on Monday July 14, 2014 @08:55PM (#8034135)

What is gcp? It sounds like you have some alias setup for cp and that's interfering.

Try: /bin/cp bigfile bigfile2

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