Well, nothing is failing. I just want to know how long I have to wait to copy a file from one server to another so I can retrieve that file and work with it. The file is a little over 400 megs and the link is a dsl link (640 x 256). So I just wish to know a round about time it will finish. I suppose I can ftp it so I can see a status..
Thanks Joe On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 17:57, Jeff Kinz wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 04:52:10PM -0700, Joe Giles wrote: > > Is there a way to get the 'cp' command to display some kind of status > > that the copy is happening. Like hash marks or something... > > > > Its gets frustrating when copying large files from one location to > > another and not seeing any progress. > > Hi Joe, > Welcome to the world UNIX. The UNIX design philosophy is that commands > do their jobs with no extra verbiage. The only time a command will > do something besides its expected action is when something goes wrong, > at which time it will report the error. There are very good reasons for > this and if you are new to UNIX it may take some time to get untrained from > the "wrong way" other environments do it. :-) > > This approach allows us to pipeline command together without having > to deal with all sorts of special options to handle diagnostic or status > reporting . > > The only reason I can think of for wanting a periodic status report > for a file copy is that your file copies frequently fail. Under normal > circumstances it will just work. No status or diagnostics needed, ever. > > This means that your real problem is something else. You don't need > a cp with status updates. You need to fix whatever is going wrong > in your environment that is causing the copy to fail. > > What are you doing and how is it failing? > > > -- > Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. [EMAIL PROTECTED] > copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an > acceptance of the offer at http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. > Don't forget to change your password often. > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
