Friday, January 21, 2011

Copy files on Windows Command Line with Progress

Does anyone know of a windows commmand-line ( available on XP Pro or later by default ) that could copy a file while showing progress. I do not care if the progress indicator is in a terminal or a GUI window.

This is intended to be used during batch file scripting

  • You could easily write a program to do that, I've got several that I've written, that display bytes copied as the file is being copied. If you're interested, comment and I'll post a link to one.

    harriyott : To be fair Gulzar, Josef was offering to send you one, and to send you his available resource to you for reuse. I suspect you stopped reading after 9 words.
    Fernando Barrocal : Any Josef, you could share those to the rest of the community :)
    Josef : When I get home I'll dig them up and post a link here.
    From Josef
  • robocopy.

  • This technet link has some good info for copying large files. I used an exchange server utility mentioned in the article which shows progress and uses non buffered copy functions internally for faster transfer.

    In another scenario, I used robocopy. Robocopy GUI makes it easier to get your command line options right.

    From Gulzar
  • Does not the xcopy command show progress? I don't have a Windows machine available to test, but I recall it being more verbose than the regular copy command.

    From dbr

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