Hi,

I am using cp command to transfer file from /home to /var directory, but what I see is even after cp command return, data is being still copied from kernel buffer to disk in the background for sometime.
Here I want to calculate the exact file transfer time taken using cp command.

How to calculate? Please help me if anyone has clear idea.

You can display the copy time by using the following command: time (cp xyz).

maybe?

Ok. I have forgotten the sync command.

I agree sync command ensures all the data in memory are copied to disk.

But I want to measure the file transfer time using single command Or

Is there any way to capture end to end file transfer speed in Linux?

Regards,
praveen

I do not really understand what do you need. What is the problem with the command time?
What do you really want to measure?
What do you mean by

Actually I want to calculate file transfer time in Linux to benchmark memory driver performance. say for ex. memory to disk.
I tried following commands to measure time,
Eg.
1st command,
$time cp /var/file1 /tmp/
2nd command,
$time cp /var/file1 /tmp/;sync
In 1st command, I found cp command is not giving exact file transfer time, because I could see file is still being copied after cp returns.
Second command solves the above problem, because sync synchronize data. Here problem is cp command runs first and outputs time and calls sync, so still time gives same value.

^ erm, that's why i put the two commands in brackets.
i'm not 100% sure about the syntax, but it should have given you the general picture.