Comments on: Adding Progress Bars to cp and mv in Gutsy http://www.ralree.com/2007/11/11/adding-progress-bars-to-cp-and-mv-in-gutsy/ Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:33:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.ralree.com/2007/11/11/adding-progress-bars-to-cp-and-mv-in-gutsy/comment-page-1/#comment-1055 Anonymous Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:07:00 +0000 http://www.ralree.info/2007/11/11/adding-progress-bars-to-cp-and-mv-in-gutsy#comment-1055 You can use rsync as a replacement for cp and get the progress bar. Here's how: http://geek00l.blogspot.com/2007/05/rsync-copy.html HTH You can use rsync as a replacement for cp and get the progress bar. Here’s how: http://geek00l.blogspot.com/2007/05/rsync-copy.html HTH

]]> By: bishop http://www.ralree.com/2007/11/11/adding-progress-bars-to-cp-and-mv-in-gutsy/comment-page-1/#comment-1056 bishop Sun, 11 Nov 2007 07:07:00 +0000 http://www.ralree.info/2007/11/11/adding-progress-bars-to-cp-and-mv-in-gutsy#comment-1056 yo, You probably should have left the system cp, rm, and mv in place and put your new ones there as vcp vrm vmv (or something else) and setup aliases for the accounts (root & your user) to use those for the cp, rm, and mv commands. That way scripts and such that attempt to use those commands dont' get extraneous output given to them when they do commands and such. That might avoid the breaking of your system you experienced. yo,

You probably should have left the system cp, rm, and mv in place and put your new ones there as vcp vrm vmv (or something else) and setup aliases for the accounts (root & your user) to use those for the cp, rm, and mv commands. That way scripts and such that attempt to use those commands dont’ get extraneous output given to them when they do commands and such.

That might avoid the breaking of your system you experienced.

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