Will Terminal show a progress bar when I copy with “cp”?

Question

Is is possible to display a progress bar when copying files in Terminal using cp?

Answer 1

You can use rsync instead.

rsync --progress /copy/from /copy/to

Answer 2

#!/bin/sh
   strace -q -ewrite cp -- "${1}" "${2}" 2>&1 \
      | awk '{
        count += $NF
            if (count % 10 == 0) {
               percent = count / total_size * 100
               printf "%3d%% [", percent
               for (i=0;i<=percent;i++)
                  printf "="
               printf ">"
               for (i=percent;i<100;i++)
                  printf " "
               printf "]\r"
            }
         }
         END { print "" }' total_size=$(stat -c '%s' "${1}") count=0

It's not perfect, but it works... drop that in a directory path and name it something similar..