Feature : use rsync instead of cp to view the progression

[sebma]

Hi,

First, let me congratulate for this great tool !

Why not use rsync instead of cp ?

To copy to a NTFS system, I use this command :

rsyncCP -pr /tmp/src/ /media/$USER/Win7_USB_Installer/

where rsyncCP is an alias to time \rsync -uth -P -z -v

To copy to a FAT32, I use this command :

rsyncCP -r --size-only /tmp/src/ /media/$USER/Win7_USB_Installer/

[Yoel Torres]

Thanks!
My intention was to use something more generic (every Linux distribution has cp available), in fact I use rsync myself, it's more verbose and powerful.

[sebma]

@oneohthree Hi, I guess rsync is kind of generic as well because it's installed on many desktop linux distributions

[Yoel Torres]

Well, in my experience I had to install rsync on several distributions. cp is part of the shell.

[sebma]

Maybe on server distributions but anyway.

There are other tools like gcp or pv, but one has to install them also.

I find it difficult to implement the copy progression in shell without using an extra tool, why not use rsync which is kind of standard ?

and why not add this rsync tool to your script dependencies in the checks function ?

[Yoel Torres]

Done in 119fdf2
Thanks for your support.

[sebma]

Thanks a lot :-)