Is there anything better than cp?

Nikon01 · 09-26-2004, 10:27 PM

Well I have a large number of mp3s on my usb hdd and I'm on usb1.1 so it takes a while. I have a few folders with loads of mp3s in them that are not in the best of shape to be doing it one by one and cp -r takes forever to go through. I started a cp on my rock folder about 6-7 hours ago and it's still working on it. So my question would be are there better commands/a spiffy program that would do a better job of moving all these files? Thanks for all help in advance

WMD · 09-26-2004, 10:35 PM

Copy some using Konqueror...it gives you a transfer rate. Make note of it and post it here.

Kitohe · 09-26-2004, 11:25 PM

cp is simply a command to transfer files. It has nothing to do with transfer speeds. If your files are taking to long to transfer then you need to invistigate hardware problems. In my experience if files are taking a long time to transfer it is because the hard drive is failing.

Nikon01 · 09-27-2004, 08:47 AM

I think it's more than likely a problem with my usb hdd... It seems whenever I copy a mass amount of files off of it it takes forever(windows or linux). Oh well I was just wondering if maybe there was a way to have cp visualize it (show a progress bar or files that it's moving). I'll try the usual -v flag. Thanks for the help guys

fsbooks · 09-27-2004, 08:59 AM

Rsync gives a good transfer rate bar, along with alot of other great options. Try something like:
"rsync -avP old/ new"

Note that the trailing slash on "old/" means something (contents of directory, not the directory itself).