How do I measure or track the progress of a command on a GNU distro?

Posted by Felipe Alvarez on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Felipe Alvarez
Published on 2010-05-18T08:10:18Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 8:11 UTC
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If I run

cp file1 file2

I'd like to be able to track it's progress. Is there a command I can use for this?

rsync --progress

has this, but is there something generic, usable for "any" command?

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