[Ilugc] progress bar for cp command

  • From: girishvenkatachalam@xxxxxxxxx (Girish Venkatachalam)
  • Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2012 16:48:53 +0530

Such a simple thing but in the UNIX you don't have a progress bar for
copying files.

There are two ways to solve this issue:

1) rsync -P <src> <dst>

2) pv <src> > <dst>
(ex: pv bigfile.img > /tmp/f.img)

-Girish

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