Programming

hi all,

i want a program or to make a bash script to find out the total ETA/percent (would be nice aswell a progress bar) of a copy recursive command

so lets say i do -

Code:

cp -r /source_folder/ /destinatation_folder/

and when i run it i get no information on the screen of how the copy is progressing

i have tried using "pv" and "progress" commands but to no avail, they just give me the ETA/progress of individual files copied in the directory but not the total ETA/progress of the whole directory

any help,

rob

You don't say what OS you have, but I would suggest pv is the tool for you.

Have a try and show us what's happening if it doesn't do what you need. It may be that you could use tar to bundle them into a single archive, pipe them through pv and extract at the other side.



Kind regards,
Robin

Hi.

1) None of the solutions from Linux Forums or command line - How can I move files and view the progress (e.g. with a progress bar)? - Unix & Linux Stack Exchange were of any help?

2) On what characteristic do you want to see progress: bytes, blocks, files, or something else?

Best wishes ... cheers, drl

smashed it -

Code:

[root@robw-linux data]# tar -c call_the_midwife_7_1708/ | pv -lep -s 32455212 | tar -x -C /mnt/local/data/new/
[=> ] 2% ETA 2:34:31

and to find the dir size i did -

Code:

du -s call_the_midwife_7_1708/

but doing it via this method takes ages as its creating the tar and extracting the tar, normally doing a normal copy only takes roughly 18 minutes

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How much data is it, and how fast are your disks?

32gigs

Its my data drive not o/s drive so its Sdb single spindle at 72rpm

How about rsync? It supports progress and same-system copy:

Code:

rsync -aI --progress source/ destination

-a for recursive, and -I to ignore timestamps and copy everything it finds.

Note the trailing / on the source is important! Otherwise you'll end up with destination/source/filename instead of destination/filename