Hello, If you just need a progress bar without others options provided by cp, you can also use the program "pv"
$ pv src > dest 693MB 0:00:23 [ 30MB/s] [===========================================================>] 100% Cheers, Sebastien On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 01:53:41PM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > On 24/07/11 18:37, Diogo Sousa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > One feature that some users search for is a progress bar on the cp program. > > > > I would like to implement a progress bar in cp, would that patch be > > accepted? Is there any reason not to do it? > > Well the thinking at the moment is it's a marginal feature. > Given that one can already use rsync for this > we don't think it needs to be added to cp. > > cheers, > Pádraig. >
