>> I am wondering, how do I measure the speed while I am doing cp > command? > > Sadly, no one seems to want to give you a straight answer... >
Why? I told him that he could use the "time" command. It is made just for this purpose. Of course, Google would have gotten him an answer 3 hours ago, but I told him about the time command only minutes after I suggested 3e8. > Try looking into the rsync command. If you read the man pages, there is > a --progress flag that you can use. This will tell you the stats as it > copies. > `rsync --progress /file/to/copy /destination/path` > He asked for speed, not progress, which implies benchmarking. > If you read the man pages on rsync, there are a few other flags that > might work for better output depending on what you want/need. > > > As someone else pointed out, there is the time command as well, but it > will only give the time _after_ it has finished. > `time cp /file/to/copy /destination/path` > Ah, you do relate to that. Thanks. > Lastly, if you do the copy within Gnome using Nautilus (and pretty sure > KDE has it to) it will show you the progress and time remaining. I don't > know what it uses on the backend to give these stats as I have never > looked into it. > On KDE at least, it is calculated internally. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
