Can I verbose output during a copy command processing?
This question seems to be old, but for the cp
command you've got the --verbose
option.
So the command works as follows:
cp --verbose -rf /src/ /dsc/
No you can't, but you could use the watch command to look at the destination directory to see how the process is progressing, eg.
watch ls -l /dsc/
You could always use rsync
instead, you'll atleast get to see the files that are being copied
rsync -rva /src/ /dst/
Of-course this only works before you start copying as an alternative to cp
. The good news is though that rsync will only copy the files it needs to so you can kill your long-running cp
command run the rsync
command and it will pick up where cp
left off.