sometimes with large files it takes a while and some sort of progress bar to know that its still working would be nice.
2 Answers
rsync --progress $SRC $DEST
can show you the percentage of what has been copied so far.
Try -v
after the command to do your command in verbose mode.
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as near as I can tell, that doesn't show a progress meter. Just says "File -> File" and no bar. May 3, 2013 at 2:16