Jan 24 2008
Clever cp enhancement
A clever fellow I ran across used a dash of strace folded in with some shell functionality to give the ubiquitous `cp’ command a wget-like progress bar:
% cp_p /mnt/raid/pub/iso/debian/debian-2.2r4potato-i386-netinst.iso > /dev/null
76% [===========================================> ]
Granted, you could probably do the same with a few pipes and `pv‘, but this gets a medal for cleverness!
Full blog post here.
