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Good evening,
Im a newbie with linux, and Ive figured out I can do "CP -R" to copy all files and directories, which works great, but if Im doing several Gb, I have no idea how far its got, or if its failed.
Is it possible to add a parameter in to show me which files its copying/copied, and maybe the progress of the current file?
On another question, is it possible to tell it to skip files if they exist already, or overwire if it does exist.
Thank you
Im a newbie with linux, and Ive figured out I can do "CP -R" to copy all files and directories, which works great, but if Im doing several Gb, I have no idea how far its got, or if its failed.
Is it possible to add a parameter in to show me which files its copying/copied, and maybe the progress of the current file?
On another question, is it possible to tell it to skip files if they exist already, or overwire if it does exist.
Thank you
Linux
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Tintin
I'm not sure what you want with overwrite if they exist. I think you want -f. Again, see the man page at http://linux.die.net/man/1/cp
What you want to use is rsync, eg:
rsync -av --stats --progress /source/dir /dest/dir
rsync -av --stats --progress /source/dir /dest/dir
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I'd like to note that running at the #, especially for commands you don't understand, is a bad idea, especially for a newbie unless it's a "sandbox" system that you are willing to reload (as people did a lot in the old days of Linux).
You are still much better off to use rsync. For your purposes it will be way quicker and use much fewer resources.
To not overwrite exisitng files, use -n. You might also want to look at -u.
See http://linux.die.net/man/1/cp