progress meter for cp and mv

[venkman]

Is there anyway to get a byte progress meter for cp and mv or something similar? I know cp -v tells you progress by file, but if I'm transfering a 650 mb iso file over usb 1 to an external harddrive, I'd like to know how many bytes have been transferred at any given moment. obviously I could use du on the destination file, but is there a more realtime way of doing it?

-Venkman

 

[patel]

I don't think there is such option in cp or mv. but you can use cpio it is faster and it will display everthing on screen.

To copy directory to remote system.

#cd /source dir
#find . | cpio -o | rsh remsystem "cd /dest_dir ; cpio -idmuv"

Patel