Defining Chaos In Order

If you need to copy large files in a Linux environment, you would usually use the cp command. Makes sense, since it’s to copy files. The downside: you don’t know how far you are within your copy. You can toggle verbose mode with ‘-v’, so when you’re copying several files you know which are done, but there’s no single-file progress to be seen.

Using rsync, you can. And it’s available on nearly every linux release, too.

Here’s the syntax difference:

cp <oldfile> <newfile>

rsync --progress <oldfile> <newfile>

rsync would then look like this:

It gives you an estimated time remaining, as well as a speed indication. And it shouldn’t affect your total copy time by that much, either.

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