Monitoring mv and other quiet commands with watch and progress 2 ▲ James Leighton 2 hours ago · Tech · hide · 3 comments mv gives you no progress output at all, which is not much fun when you are moving 100+GB of Google Takeout archives and cannot tell if anything is happening. Two tools fix this: watch and progress. With your move already running, open a second terminal and enter the following: watch progress -w This refreshes every 2 seconds and shows a live view of the running process. Progress probably needs installing first, but it is a quick job with your package manager. On Bazzite, I installed it using brew (brew install progress) This is post 57 of #100DaysToOffload. To respond on your own website, write a post which contains a link to this post - then enter the URl of your page here. Learn more about WebMentions. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here. Ike @ike@pkm.social 1 hour ago [-] I would have to check the command options to see if they can "move" instead of copy, but for an archive, especially one of that size, I would want the assurance of verification and consider using rsync or rclone. I dont know if move does any verification. Rsync and Rclone do show progress. James @semaj@social.lol 1 hour ago [-] @bubbles aye, I’d agree with you in most cases. today’s issue was just needed to move the archive before actually extracting it / using it which would have highlighted any issues fairly quickly! Plus I hate remembering how to use rsync 🫠 Ike @ike@pkm.social 1 hour ago [-] @bubbles makes sense!
