Re: Functionality in 'cp' and 'mv' command

[Pádraig Brady]

On 31/08/15 06:57, Abhilash Mhaisne wrote:
> Hey all.
> 
> When the cp or mv command is executed, no progress of copying is shown.
> The verbose option shows the source and destination, but not the progress.
> 
> In the wget tool, download progress is shown. Can we have the similar feature 
> integrated on cp and mv?

This comes up periodically.

The current thinking is that often you don't know ahead
of time that the file is large or the transport is slow,
and so an external utility to query the progress would
be a more general solution. I.E. something like:
https://github.com/Xfennec/progress

Also one can use rsync to get that functionality.

thanks,
Pádraig.