From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 22 17:32:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66D6716A41C for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:32:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from rosebud.otenet.gr (rosebud.otenet.gr [195.170.0.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C97E443D4C for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:32:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226]) by rosebud.otenet.gr (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-1) with SMTP id j5MHVxju030165; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:31:59 +0300 Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (orion [127.0.0.1]) by orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j5MHVwqL012570; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:31:58 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j5MHVwns012569; Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:31:58 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 20:31:58 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Frank Staals Message-ID: <20050622173158.GB12475@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <42B99926.8020309@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42B99926.8020309@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Showing transfer rates with cp X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 17:32:02 -0000 On 2005-06-22 19:00, Frank Staals wrote: > I have a rather small and maybe silly question but I it will provide me > a lot info. I would like to see transfer rates when I use 'cp'. At home > I have a FreeBSD server with a couple harddiscs in them. I work on my > laptop and mount the discs from the server using NFS. But when copying > files from server to laptop or vice versa I have no idea how long it > will take before it is finished. Is there a way to show those speeds ? I > also checked with scp but when mounted it kind of act like 'cp' and > doesn't show anything Hint... while the cp(1) operation is running, just press ^T (or whatever "status" is assigned to in your terminal setup)