Alternatives to progress
A small command that shows the progress of running cp, mv, dd, tar and similar coreutils commands. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
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progress
A small command that shows the progress of running cp, mv, dd, tar and similar coreutils commands.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as progress.
Pipe Viewer
A terminal tool, pv, that shows progress, throughput and time remaining for data in a pipeline.
Pipe Viewer shows progress, throughput and ETA for data in any pipeline, can also watch an already running process, and offers rate limits plus Debian and RPM packages.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
xcp
A partial clone of the Unix cp command with progress feedback and optimisations for some copy tasks.
GNU Coreutils
The core GNU file, shell and text utilities, including ls, cp, mv and sort.
GNU Tar
The GNU command-line tool for creating, extracting, updating and listing tar archives.
pigz
A parallel implementation of gzip that uses multiple CPU cores to compress data faster.
hwatch
An alternative to the watch command that keeps a history of output and shows differences.
