file copy with progress?

[Amanda Yilmaz]

I often use rsync locally when I want to copy something and track its
progress; for example, to copy a directory of files to another
directory, I would use something like this:

rsync -arv --progress /somedir/dirtocopy /otherdir

where
-a means "archive" (preserve attributes, mod times, etc. as far as possible)
-r means "recursive" (for recursive directory copies)
-v means "verbose"
--progress shows progress on individual files during transfer

You may wish to read the rsync man page first before using it; in
particular, there's one special form involving a trailing slash on the
source directory that's a little funky (this is explained in the "Usage"
section).

Amanda

Aaron Vegh wrote:
> Hi there,
> I'm copying a large number of files to another drive, totalling over
> 250GB. The command cp, and scp, will show nothing while doing that
> copy. I'd love to see a progress indicator for each file in the copy
> so I know how it's coming along. Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks!
> Aaron.
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