Show progress of copy / move files

[Logicdemon]

Hi,

Currently when copying / moving a file from one directory to another or across drives there is no indication of anything happening. A moved file will just appear at the new location once it has been completed. For the most part this is has been OK as things are nice and quick with nnn. However, when you start working with large 10GB+ files or move many small files say 20,000 at a time there isn't a way to tell how long the process its taking. It would be nice to have some basic percent counter or at least an indicator of a file move in progress within nnn. At the moment I am having to come out of the program and look at other processes to try and figure out how things are progressing.

Really appreciate all the work. I'm trying to use to using nnn more in my everyday work and eventually move to it fully from other file managers I have been using. Cheers

[jarun]

Try advcpmv: https://github.com/jarun/advcpmv

There are no plans to support this within nnn.

BTW, please go through the docs and the wiki to explore the many things that nnn can already do or integrate.

[Disonantemus]

Hi,

Currently when copying / moving a file from one directory to another or across drives there is no indication of anything happening. A moved file will just appear at the new location once it has been completed. For the most part this is has been OK as things are nice and quick with nnn. However, when you start working with large 10GB+ files or move many small files say 20,000 at a time there isn't a way to tell how long the process its taking. It would be nice to have some basic percent counter or at least an indicator of a file move in progress within nnn. At the moment I am having to come out of the program and look at other processes to try and figure out how things are progressing.

Really appreciate all the work. I'm trying to use to using nnn more in my everyday work and eventually move to it fully from other file managers I have been using. Cheers

cp mv progress

In mi case (Arch Linux), I did install advcpmv from AUR, and I did copy them to /bin, but forgot last part, use flag -r on launch to show progress, like this:

nnn -r

$ nnn -h | grep "advcpmv"
 -r      use advcpmv patched cp, mv

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Shouldn't be an environmental variable configuration for this? I don't see the point to not be always enable; something like NNN_SHOW_PROGRESS.

Workaround

I changed the following file to make it permanent (maybe there are better ways):

/usr/share/nnn/quitcd/quitcd.bash_sh_zsh

$ diff quitcd.bash_sh_zsh quitcd.bash_sh_zsh_mine
24c24
<     command nnn "$@"
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>     command nnn -r "$@"

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I did this, because I use nnn everyday, just today I found my mistake and did this minimal helpful changes, maybe this can help to someone else.