Oh, I just ran into something where a small utility would help out. Basically I needed something that would be just like cp or mv, but would give the transfer rate of the file copy. Lot's of programs do this (scp, ftp, wget, etc...), but I don't think there is a way to have cp do it. I could use 'time', but that's no fun. :)
Kyle Sexton
________________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Pemberton Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 2:46 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Program suggestion
Can anyone suggest a small application CLI or GUI that just seems to be "missing" from Linux? Not necessarily an application that exists in Windows, but not in Linux, but a program that would make some part of your Linux experience better.
I am just dying to make a cool Linux app/project, but I am lacking ideas. For interface, I am considering console, GTK+ or Qt. For programming language, I am considering Python or C++;
I appreciate your ideas.
If you don't mind running a file manager there's always Midnight Commander, which runs in text mode and very quickly, and which offers a transfer rate and estimated time to completion value as well.
--- "Sexton, Kyle" [email protected] wrote:
Oh, I just ran into something where a small utility would help out. Basically I needed something that would be just like cp or mv, but would give the transfer rate of the file copy. Lot's of programs do this (scp, ftp, wget, etc...), but I don't think there is a way to have cp do it. I could use 'time', but that's no fun. :)
Kyle Sexton
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Arthur Pemberton Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 2:46 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Program suggestion
Can anyone suggest a small application CLI or GUI that just seems to be "missing" from Linux? Not necessarily an application that exists in Windows, but not in Linux, but a program that would make some part of your Linux experience better.
I am just dying to make a cool Linux app/project, but I am lacking ideas. For interface, I am considering console, GTK+ or Qt. For programming language, I am considering Python or C++;
I appreciate your ideas.
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On 11/8/05, Sexton, Kyle [email protected] wrote:
Oh, I just ran into something where a small utility would help out. Basically I needed something that would be just like cp or mv, but would give the transfer rate of the file copy. Lot's of programs do this (scp, ftp, wget, etc...), but I don't think there is a way to have cp do it. I could use 'time', but that's no fun. :)
Kyle Sexton
#!/usr/bin/perl ($source,$dest) = @ARGV; open S, "<$source" or die "opening $source for read: $!"; open D, ">$dest" or die "opening $dest for write: $!"; $time = time(); while(<S>){ $count++; $bytes += length($_); print '.'; if ($time != time()){ print "\n$count lines ($bytes chars) per second\n"; $bytes = $count = 0; $time = time(); }; print D $_; }; print "\n"; __END__
plenty of opportunities for fun in extending that :)
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