[ale] Neat code clip: cp progress bar
Michael B. Trausch
mike at trausch.us
Fri Mar 5 12:46:28 EST 2010
On 03/05/2010 12:00 PM, Joey Rutledge wrote:
> This is really neat. Typically when I am copying large files and I want
> to keep up with the progress I will use rsync with the --progress flag.
> It's equally as awesome.
What I have done in the past is used pv as Brian just recently
mentioned. I *love* that tool. For example, to monitor the progress of
doing a bookended tar pipeline:
tar -C /src -c . | pv | tar -C /dest -x
Or, if I know approximately how much data will be transferred in that
pipeline:
tar -C /src -c . | pv -s 20g | tar -C /dest -x
So that it will give me an (very crude, rough estimate of) ETC.
--- Mike
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