Hi there,

As I have been constantly impressed with things that linux can do I thought I would ask this bold question:

Is there a way of displaying a nice progress indicator in the command line when i copy folders/files in the commandline? I usually use ssh and copy large files from different places and I dont want the two exteremes of either no out put whilst the computer does its work or the thousands of lines of files which are being copied which still gives me no indication of the total progress of the cp command.

I was wondering if there was a command line tool which prints a nice little progress bar with text something like

| ------>........| 55%

I have seen these around linux for loading things up and other things but I was wondering if it was available for copying? How would I go about it?

check the Search function within LQ
and search for this: "cp progress bar"

Quick answer no

Ah, I tried that and it didn't yield anything helpful.

Will keep looking

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=407381

I've found a solution for all DD's and cp's that cry cause they don't got a progress bar.
http://invisible-insland.net/dialog
Licence: GPL 2.0
alternative CDK, Xdialog, Gtkdialog, Kdialog

rsync -rv <src> <dst> --progress
r = recursive
v = verbose

Ok, I have looked for a simple solution on the internet and it seems many people have come up with different not-so-simple ideas. Here's what I came up with on my quiet (and boring) workday on a Saturday:

In the command above pv is reading the original_file and passing it to stdout. cat is grabbing the output from pv on its stdin (-) and redirecting it to the copied_file. Same apparent effect as copying the file using the cp command.

The pv utility should be available for almost all distros.