Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 12:01:46 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> To: Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com> Cc: Maciek <dentysta@pc42.lublin.sdi.tpnet.pl>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: percent progress Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0112011159350.7260-100000@ren.sasknow.com> In-Reply-To: <20011130164903.G2924-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com>
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Philip Hallstrom wrote to Ryan Thompson: > Actually mv could take a really long time if you move across > filesystems because then it is really doing a cp and then a > delete... Exactly... Which is precisely why mv(1) does not need a progress indicator. See /usr/src/bin/mv/ .. It really does exec /bin/cp to do the copy across filesystems if the rename fails. ;-) > add the "-v" option to either mv or cp and watch the files go > by... Yep.. Useful workaround. > -philip - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson <ryan@sasknow.com> Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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