C (gcc) code for copying with progress bar (cp clone)

**sudodus** · March 20th, 2013

Good luck, and please make it available to the linux community

**conradin** · March 21st, 2013

I bet there is a way to do it using wget!
I havent really thought about it though.

then I wondered maybe other commands have the progess bar... like cat, mv or something else.
then I found this:
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~chris/stuff/cwp.c.gz

maybe that will be helpful!

**trent.josephsen** · March 22nd, 2013

Originally Posted by rsync(1)

--progress show progress during transfer

rsync wins again!

When this topic first came up I thought "Isn't there a command line switch for that?" But I checked cp(1) and saw nothing, so chalked it up to poor memory. For some reason the mention of wget caused it to dawn on me that I had been thinking of rsync in the first place.

**sudodus** · March 22nd, 2013

Originally Posted by trent.josephsen

rsync wins again!

When this topic first came up I thought "Isn't there a command line switch for that?" But I checked cp(1) and saw nothing, so chalked it up to poor memory. For some reason the mention of wget caused it to dawn on me that I had been thinking of rsync in the first place.

+1

You are right. rsync is the 'power' alternative to cp as always

**honeybear** · March 23rd, 2013

actually there is one already with cp -g

http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-core.../msg00610.html

would you know where I can get the *.c source?

**schragge** · March 24th, 2013

The source is included in the message you linked. It's a patch to cp/mv code. However, it appears this patch has been rejected by GNU coreutils developers.