Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:50:13 -0800 (PST) From: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> To: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Cc: Maciek <dentysta@pc42.lublin.sdi.tpnet.pl>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: percent progress Message-ID: <20011130164903.G2924-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111301834090.55047-100000@ren.sasknow.com>
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Actually mv could take a really long time if you move across filesystems because then it is really doing a cp and then a delete... It's not really an estimate and someone might have already suggested this (didn't see the whole thread) but you can always add the "-v" option to either mv or cp and watch the files go by... -philip On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Ryan Thompson wrote: > Maciek wrote to questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > > > Hi, > > > > can I have percent progress in mv or cp? > > Here's a more academic answer: > > You shouldn't really need one for mv, unless you are mv'ing thousands > of files. (Note that if you mv a directory, even if it contains > thousands (or millions) of files, that it completes with only one > actual move operation... so it returns almost immediately). > > cp, on the other hand, could potentially support something like this. > Someone already suggested using an existing file manager for > this, which is a fine idea. > > One trouble with copying files, though, is one doesn't always know how > much progress has been made. (i.e., cp from a special file), so it > wouldn't be perfect. For most applications, though, it would be OK. > > It would be fairly trivial to extend cp(1) to include something like > this, but it would cause funny results in a lot of scripts that don't > expect any output from cp(1). You'd want to make a copy of the cp(1) > source under a different name, and make your modifications there. > > Hope this helps, > - Ryan > > > > > > Rodion > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> > Network Administrator, Accounts > > SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com > #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 > > Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon > Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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