I know you can use Smart::Comments to display a progress bar. I read it slows down the program- but likely at compilation time and should make absolutely no difference in your case- since we are already anticipating it may take a while.

Is the interface to your software via the terminal? Is this an educated user, thus? Why wouldn't they just use use 'top' ?

How are you getting a list of files to copy? Are you making a system call like 'cp -R ./fromdir ./todir', or are you using File::Find, and then File::Copy one by one?

Why is it taking so long, for a gig?

What's 'so long'? A minute, twenty.. What speed is your hard drive read/write rate- 44100 rpm ? 15000 rpm? What's your filesystem? What's your operating system?

Would you consider benchmarking the difference between copying 1 gig via File::Copy and system cp ?

I have some code that creates random junk on disk to benchmark md5 sum calls, might be useful.

In reply to Re: Copying a directory and its contents wihile displaying a progress bar by leocharre
in thread Copying a directory and its contents wihile displaying a progress bar by bittis

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