How to show the transfer progress and speed when copying files with cp?

bash_bob

Otherwise, is there any alternative command line utility that can achieve this?

Originally asked by Olivier Lalonde on Stack Exchange (askubuntu) (CC BY-SA 3.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

There isn't any progress or speed indicator in cp . See here as to why. Although it does more than you need, rsync has a --progress parameter. The -a will keep permissions, etc, and -h will be human readable. rsync -ah --progress source destination The output will look something like this: Pictures/1.jpg 2.13M 100% 2.28MB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#5898, to-chk=1/5905) Pictures/2.jpg 1.68M 100% 1.76MB/s 0:00:00 (xfr#5899, to-chk=0/5905) Community edit: Currently this is the highest voted answer, yet in the comments there is a strong consensus about a major improvement that had not yet been included in the answer: Instead of --progress , one can use --info=progress2 , which produces a different result,...

Full answer by user35186: https://askubuntu.stackexchange.com/a/201250 (CC BY-SA 3.0).

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