On: Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc.

[stanzheng]

Anyone know a similar tool available to OSX or if its feasible to port or recreate this for MAC?

I'm not too familiar with what file libs or utils can be used to handle this as the author says this relies on a linux specific header file and tool.

See https://github.com/Xfennec/cv/issues/6

[atombender → stanzheng]

Entirely feasible, as far as I know; OS X lets you discover processes and access their devices. OS X, being BSD-based, doesn't have a /proc file system; instead, you have to use sysctl() to get at the data.

[gaadd33 → stanzheng]

Just hit ctrl-t to get status on OS X.

[mef → gaadd33]

ctrl+t doesn't show percent complete

[AdamGibbins → mef]

Yes it does

  aeg@bigwibble ~/ % cp bigfile /Volumes/data_sd1
  load: 1.60  cmd: cp 17686 uninterruptible 0.00u 0.09s
  bigfile -> /Volumes/data_sd1/bigfile   1%

[mef → AdamGibbins]

Here's me hitting it 4 times:

    [/tmp]$ cp bigfile bigfile2
    load: 1.78  cmd: gcp 93420 running 0.00u 0.04s
    load: 1.78  cmd: gcp 93420 running 0.00u 0.10s
    load: 1.80  cmd: gcp 93420 uninterruptible 0.00u 0.16s
    load: 1.80  cmd: gcp 93420 uninterruptible 0.00u 0.26s
    [/tmp]$

[gaadd33 → mef]

What is gcp? It sounds like you have some alias setup for cp and that's interfering.

Try: /bin/cp bigfile bigfile2