Unix copy command that has a progress bar, but not as heavy as rsync
- by Rory McCann
I need to copy lots of files. Usually I use rsync because I pass it the -aP options and I can see (a) how many files are left to process and (b) how much of each individual file is copied.
However rsync also does lots of things with checksums to verify that a file was copied. However I don't really need that now. But normal cp doesn't include the above mentioned count of files left, which is very helpful.
Is there anything like cp that includes progress of how many files left, but isn't as heavy as rsync?