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Copy command progress from Command Line

posted Oct 30, 2009 5:15 AM by Bruno Braga [ updated Oct 30, 2009 6:00 AM ]

Never thought about using rsync for purposes different than synchronization. Yeah, well.... Recently, I ran into a situation where I had to copy a bunch of stuff from one place to another, but the size of the contents were matter of GBs, and I kind'a needed to know the progress of it, like when you so it from GUI...

Searching a bit, I found that you could use rsync for that (impressively, "cp" or "mv" commands do not have such feature). So here it is:

rsync --archive --verbose --human-readable --progress /path/to/origin /path/to/destination

Note: for those not familiar with rsync, read about the "--archive" option before using it.

$ rsync -av --human-readable --progress --stats /path/to/origin /path/to/destination
sending incremental file list
video1.avi
       2.96G 100%    2.03MB/s    0:23:11 (xfer#1, to-check=4/5)
video2.avi
     288.24M 100%    1.90MB/s    0:02:24 (xfer#2, to-check=3/5)
video3.avi
     302.28M 100%    1.89MB/s    0:02:32 (xfer#3, to-check=2/5)
video4.avi
     576.69M 100%    2.02MB/s    0:04:32 (xfer#4, to-check=1/5)
video5.avi
     182.67M 100%    1.84MB/s    0:01:34 (xfer#5, to-check=0/5)

Number of files: 5
Number of files transferred: 5
Total file size: 4.31G bytes
Total transferred file size: 4.31G bytes
Literal data: 4.31G bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 240
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 4.31G
Total bytes received: 107

sent 4.31G bytes received 107 bytes 2.10M bytes/sec
total size is 4.31G speedup is 1.00