Progress bar for terminal? (for mv, cp, rm)

Question

Is there way to show the progress of mv, cp or rm a large file? (maybe percentage or speed of transfer)
Sometimes, when I try do something to a large file with one of those three commands, there is not way to know if it gets stack or not.
Last edited by kdar (2011-05-21 15:33:27)

Answer 1

1.
rsync -aP
2. A zsh function.
(strace required)
cp_p()
strace -q -ewrite cp -- "${1}" "${2}" 2>&1 \
| awk '{
count += $NF
if (count % 10 == 0) {
percent = count / total_size * 100
printf "%3d%% [", percent
for (i=0;i<=percent;i++)
printf "="
printf ">"
for (i=percent;i<100;i++)
printf " "
printf "]\r"
END { print "" }' total_size=$(stat -c '%s' "${1}") count=0
3. A zsh function.
(pv required)
cp_p2()
if [ `echo "$2" | grep ".*\/$"` ]; then
pv "$1" > "$2""$1";
else pv "$1" > "$2"/"$1";
fi ;