Re: progress bar in cp

[Bob Proulx]

Diogo Sousa wrote:
> One feature that some users search for is a progress bar on the cp program.
> 
> I would like to implement a progress bar in cp, would that patch be
> accepted? Is there any reason not to do it?

If cp had every feature of rsync then it would be rsync.

  $ ls -ldogh /bin/cp /usr/bin/rsync | awk '{print $3, $7}'
  116K /bin/cp
  393K /usr/bin/rsync

And if you would like to have one of the features available in rsync
then it is better to be using rsync instead.

Bob

P.S. The old V7 cp executable was only 3.2K.