Situation: If I entered a copy command like cp -rf /src/ /dsc/ then I am waiting several minutes for copy large directories. I forgot to put -v flag to verbose an output, Can I do it during copying?
asked Dec 22, 2012 at 9:29
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This question seems to be old, but for the cp command you've got the --verbose option.
So the command works as follows:
cp --verbose -rf /src/ /dsc/
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9This is ideally what one should have done, but the point of the question was, what can you do to monitor the copy progress if you forgot to do this for a large operation.– mervCommented Dec 23, 2016 at 4:08
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cp -v -rwill indicate that you want to display files being copied (as specified by-v), and-rwill indicate that you want to recursively copy files, which will be needed if you are copying any sub-directories. Commented Jan 4, 2019 at 6:22
No you can't, but you could use the watch command to look at the destination directory to see how the process is progressing, eg.
watch ls -l /dsc/
answered Dec 22, 2012 at 11:20
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5Please add
watch "find . | wc -l"as well. I found it better since your command only shows one level depth. Commented Jan 7, 2015 at 8:29 -
How to deal with space in the path ? usual
" ",' 'or escaping\doesn't seem to to work forwatch ls -l /path with spaces/Commented Apr 8 at 8:37
You could always use rsync instead, you'll atleast get to see the files that are being copied
rsync -rva /src/ /dst/
Of-course this only works before you start copying as an alternative to cp. The good news is though that rsync will only copy the files it needs to so you can kill your long-running cp command run the rsync command and it will pick up where cp left off.
I propose :
watch du -sh /dsc/
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I recommend to use Midnight Commander in case when you need to see a progress of files copying.
Install Midnight commander:
apt-get install mcOpen it:
mcOn first panel open source, on second - destination. Start copying using "F5".
MC will display nice and informative progress dialog.
