On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 05:47:45PM -0800, fred pasteck wrote: > Hi Joe, > > You can either read what Jeff has written, or you can > just run "cp -av" instead. > Interesting Fred. On my system that simply reports when the job is finished. echo back the name of the file being copied from and to.
No ongoing status is reported at all. This is no more information than you get when the prompt comes back. Joe was looking for some kind of progress bar like some install tools use. Given the slow link he is copying over I can see why he would want one. Slow is relative of course. At least he isn't on a dial up. > Best, > Fred > > > --- Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! > http://platinum.yahoo.com > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- 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
