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Commands tagged progress

Terminal - Commands tagged progress - 16 results

rsync --progress user@host:/path/to/source /path/to/target/ | stdbuf -oL tr '\r' '\n' >> rsyncprogress.txt

2013-03-26 11:06:45

User: MessedUpHare

Functions: rsync tr

Tags: rsync tr progress stdbuf unbuffer

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make rsync progress output suitable for shell script reading

This line unbuffers the interactive output of rsync's --progress flag

creating a new line for every update.

This output can now be used within a script to make actions (or possibly piped into a GUI generator for a progress bar)

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CTRL + T

2012-12-19 02:21:41

User: unixmonkey44467

Tags: dd progress

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check the status of 'dd' in progress (OS X)

Sends SIGINFO to the process. This is a BSD feature OS X inherited. You must have the terminal window executing dd selected when entering CTRL + T for this to work.

watch -n 1 pkill -USR1 "^dd$"

2012-08-31 05:15:45

User: ivanalejandro0

Functions: watch

Tags: dd progress speed

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send DD a signal to print its progress

Sends the "USR1" signal every 1 second (-n 1) to a process called exactly "dd".

The signal in some systems can be INFO or SIGINFO ...

look at the signals list in: man kill

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dd if=/dev/urandom of=file.img bs=4KB& sleep 1 && pid=`pidof dd`; while [[ -d /proc/$pid ]]; do kill -USR1 $pid && sleep 10 && clear; done

2012-02-23 01:45:53

User: unixmonkey31714

Functions: dd kill sleep

Tags: dd progress progess meter

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Watch the progress of 'dd'

The previously-posted one-liner didn't work for me for whatever reason, so I ended up doing this instead.

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pv -t -p /path/to/sqlfile.sql | mysql -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD -D DATABASE_NAME

2011-06-27 13:27:48

User: Koobiac

Tags: mysql pv progress import

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Command to import Mysql database with a progress bar.

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dd if=/dev/urandom of=file.img bs=4KB& pid=$!; while [[ -d /proc/$pid ]]; do kill -USR1 $pid && sleep 1 && clear; done

2011-06-24 21:49:10

User: unixmonkey14934

Functions: dd kill sleep

Tags: dd progress

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Watch the progress of 'dd'

Only slightly different than previous commands. The benefit is that your "watch" should die when the dd command has completed. (Of course this would depend on /proc being available)

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dd if=/path/inputfile | pv | dd of=/path/outpufile

2010-12-02 18:11:42

User: lucafaus

Functions: dd

Tags: dd copy progress

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Start dd and show progress every X seconds

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dd if=/path/to/inputfile of=/path/to/outputfile & pid=$! && sleep X && while kill -USR1 $pid; do sleep X; done

2010-12-02 15:07:18

User: cyrusza

Functions: dd kill sleep

Tags: dd copy progress

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Start dd and show progress every X seconds

Adjust "sleep X" to your needs.

*NOTE: First sleep is required because bash doesn't have a "post-test" syntax (do XXX while).

killall -INFO dd

2010-04-22 18:38:37

User: jearsh

Functions: killall

Tags: dd progress

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check the status of 'dd' in progress (OS X)

"killall -USR1 dd" does not work in OS X for me. However, sending INFO instead of USR1 works.

pv -cN orig < foo.tar.bz2 | bzcat | pv -cN bzcat | gzip -9 | pv -cN gzip > foo.tar.gz

2010-04-16 05:21:10

User: rkulla

Functions: gzip

Tags: pipes pv convert progress

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See multiple progress bars at once for multiple pipes with pv

In this example we convert a .tar.bz2 file to a .tar.gz file.

If you don't have Pipe Viewer, you'll have to download it via apt-get install pv, etc.

while :;do killall -USR1 dd;sleep 1;done

2010-04-07 09:23:31

User: oernii2

Functions: killall

Tags: dd progress speed

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send DD a signal to print its progress

every 1sec sends DD the USR1 signal which causes DD to print its progress.

rsync --progress file1 file2

2010-02-25 19:57:01

User: fletch

Functions: rsync

Tags: copy progress progress

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Copy with progress

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pv file1 > file2

2010-02-25 19:18:32

User: ppaschka

Tags: pv copy progress progress

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Copy with progress

Only works on single files, doesn't preserve permissions/timestamps/ownership.

dc3dd progress=on bs=512 count=2048 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null

2010-01-12 22:54:27

User: ubahmapk

Tags: dd copy copy progress progress

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Copy a file using dc3dd and watch its progress (very nice alternative to dd)

Requires the dc3dd package - available at http://dc3dd.sourceforge.net

tar -cf - . | pv -s $(du -sb . | awk '{print $1}') | gzip > out.tgz

2009-12-18 17:09:08

User: opertinicy

Functions: awk du gzip tar

Tags: awk du tar gzip pv progress

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copy working directory and compress it on-the-fly while showing progress

What happens here is we tell tar to create "-c" an archive of all files in current dir "." (recursively) and output the data to stdout "-f -". Next we specify the size "-s" to pv of all files in current dir. The "du -sb . | awk ?{print $1}?" returns number of bytes in current dir, and it gets fed as "-s" parameter to pv. Next we gzip the whole content and output the result to out.tgz file. This way "pv" knows how much data is still left to be processed and shows us that it will take yet another 4 mins 49 secs to finish.

Credit: Peteris Krumins http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer/

copy(){ cp -v "$1" "$2"&watch -n 1 'du -h "$1" "$2";printf "%s%%\n" $(echo `du -h "$2"|cut -dG -f1`/0.`du -h "$1"|cut -dG -f1`|bc)';}

2009-08-03 14:32:32

User: frozenfire

Functions: cp cut echo

Tags: copy copy progress progress

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Copy with progress

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