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Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd, ... (formerly known as cv)

19 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 4 stories, 15 comments · first 2014-07-12 · latest 2026-01-24

Mentions per year 19 mentions · busiest year 2014 (3)
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    Show HN: A GTK app for Linux to show file buffer progress
    story by dcminter · 2026-01-24 · 0 comments
  2. …in-place. This reminds me that I wanted to modify my GNU Screen hardstatus to call it. [1] https://github.com/Xfennec/progress
    comment by aargh_aargh · 2024-07-19 · in Show HN: ProgressLine – Track commands progress in a compact one-line format
  3. …- 4K Desktop Wallpaper Generator: https://tanck.nl/wallpaper/ - Coreutils Progress Viewer: https://github.com/Xfennec/progress - Free open source icons & illustrations: https://iconduck.com/
    comment by fernvenue · 2023-07-18 · in Ask HN: What is the most practical tool/website you discovered on Hacker News?
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    Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd
    story by jxi · 2023-05-19 · 178 comments
  5. Another good option for that, which works in a number of other useful circumstances too, is progress: https://github.com/Xfennec/progress
    comment by dspillett · 2022-10-19 · in Pipe Viewer
  6. `progress` ( https://github.com/Xfennec/progress ) and similar can be very helpful too depending on the backup utilities being used (in my case often involving rsync) even if the processes normally have everything set to quiet so no…
    comment by dspillett · 2021-06-22 · in The wrong way to switch operating systems on your server
  7. …first things I make sure is installed on a new system for years, though I have recently come across https://github.com/Xfennec/progress which is brilliant for some times when pv is not an option or when you want to watch the status of…
    comment by dspillett · 2021-01-24 · in Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedure to copy a CD/DVD? (2015)
  8. …are basic so I’m not sure how it compares, but I like the utility “progress” for monitoring things: https://github.com/Xfennec/progress/blob/master/README.md Edit: By monitoring things, I mean like finding how far through a dd is after you…
    comment by thebruce87m · 2020-06-09 · in Show HN: Watch what files any Linux process accesses
  9. …options, and can be applied to all sorts of commands as it just digs about in the file handles. 1. https://github.com/Xfennec/progress
    comment by JNRowe · 2020-05-29 · in Useless Use of Cat Award (2000)
  10. …more fancy, like using gdbar² to display a graphical progress through files for a given process. 1. https://github.com/Xfennec/progress 2. https://github.com/robm/dzen
    comment by JNRowe · 2020-03-17 · in What is fsck up to now?
  11. …): very useful for monitoring some classes of long-running process. progress ( https://github.com/Xfennec/progress ): for similar reasons to pv, wanting to see how a long-running task (that isn't giving its own progress information) is g
    comment by dspillett · 2018-11-19 · in Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
  12. check out progress: https://github.com/Xfennec/progress
    comment by chaosfox · 2018-10-15 · in Using /proc to get a process' current stack trace
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    Progress – tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd...
    story by kbd · 2017-01-24 · 0 comments
  14. Check this out. https://github.com/Xfennec/progress
    comment by hashhar · 2017-01-09 · in Dd is not a disk writing tool (2015)
  15. There's also this incredible tool that spies on processes to get real time progress: https://github.com/Xfennec/progress
    comment by zx2c4 · 2016-01-11 · in dd built-in progress introduced in coreutils 8.24
  16. The aptly named "Progress" also works on dd. https://github.com/Xfennec/progress
    comment by jeffcox · 2015-12-01 · in dd – Destroyer of Disks (2008)
  17. I like https://github.com/Xfennec/cv approach better, but still pv sometimes is the only viable option on systems have policy to install software from vendor repositories only.
    comment by radoslawc · 2014-12-17 · in A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer
  18. …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
    comment by stanzheng · 2014-07-12 · in Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc.
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    Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc.
    story by tbrock · 2014-07-12 · 53 comments