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So, I'm finding tons of nifty little bash scripts, scp tips, rsync tips, etc etc for copying one file to a destination while showing the progress of that copy, however, how would I go about doing this for a directory with sub-directories (cp with -r flag)
i.e. show progress for
Code:
cp -r /mnt/storage/media /mnt/usb/linuxbak
or something similar where media has a dozen files and a dozen sub-directories with files.
All help appreciated in advance! THANKS!
p.s. Running ubuntu server 11.10 so need CLI info!!
ahhh, no. that's pretty much the same as the verbose option for cp. I'm more looking for a progress meter like wget uses. Thank you for the suggestion though.
ouch. I tried that and I'm only getting 5mb xfer speed going between two hard drives. Both internal sata (limited by the pci bus.) basically a 350mb file takes about 70 seconds to copy. That's kinda long considering I need to copy 661GB. is it always this slow?
well its a trade off, you gotta decide what you want more, speed or you want the progress info similar to wget.Well rsync does that, but its the slowest on local file systems , mv is fastest then cp then rsync.
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