> From: Zaki Akhmad [mailto:zakiakh...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 5:43 AM > Subject: Measure "cp" Speed? > > Hello, > > I am wondering, how do I measure the speed while I am doing cp command?
Sadly, no one seems to want to give you a straight answer... Try looking into the rsync command. If you read the man pages, there is a --progress flag that you can use. This will tell you the stats as it copies. `rsync --progress /file/to/copy /destination/path` If you read the man pages on rsync, there are a few other flags that might work for better output depending on what you want/need. As someone else pointed out, there is the time command as well, but it will only give the time _after_ it has finished. `time cp /file/to/copy /destination/path` Lastly, if you do the copy within Gnome using Nautilus (and pretty sure KDE has it to) it will show you the progress and time remaining. I don't know what it uses on the backend to give these stats as I have never looked into it. Hope this helps. Have fun! ~S~ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
