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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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