Hi Joe, You can either read what Jeff has written, or you can just run "cp -av" instead.
Best, Fred --- Jeff Kinz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 04:52:10PM -0700, Joe Giles > wrote: > > Is there a way to get the 'cp' command to display > some kind of status > > that the copy is happening. Like hash marks or > something... > > > > Its gets frustrating when copying large files from > one location to > > another and not seeing any progress. > > Hi Joe, > Welcome to the world UNIX. The UNIX design > philosophy is that commands > do their jobs with no extra verbiage. The only time > a command will > do something besides its expected action is when > something goes wrong, > at which time it will report the error. There are > very good reasons for > this and if you are new to UNIX it may take some > time to get untrained from > the "wrong way" other environments do it. :-) > > This approach allows us to pipeline command together > without having > to deal with all sorts of special options to handle > diagnostic or status > reporting . > > The only reason I can think of for wanting a > periodic status report > for a file copy is that your file copies frequently > fail. Under normal > circumstances it will just work. No status or > diagnostics needed, ever. > > This means that your real problem is something else. > You don't need > a cp with status updates. You need to fix whatever > is going wrong > in your environment that is causing the copy to > fail. > > What are you doing and how is it failing? > > > -- > Jeff Kinz, Open-PC, Emergent Research, Hudson, MA. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > copyright 2003. Use is restricted. Any use is an > acceptance of the offer at > http://www.kinz.org/policy.html. > Don't forget to change your password often. > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
