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Have a file File.txt and if any process is trying to copy the file from /source/ to /destination/
Is there a way to identify if the file File.txt (or any other file ) available in /destination/ is completely copied, or the process is still going on.
I tried lsof but its not working
**Error** : lsof: WARNING: can't stat() nfs file system
Any suggestions
Try to use rsync with --progress option next time.
Here is a little snippet that will help you to get the progress status every second until it reaches 100% percent ; Just replace your source and destination file paths.
n="$(du -sh <path_to_your_source_file> | awk '{print $1}' | sed 's/[^0-9.]*//g')"
while true; do sourcesize="$n" destdir=<path_to_your_dest_file> copyprogress="$(export | du -sh $destdir | awk '{print $1}' | sed 's/[^0-9.]*//g' )" ; echo "scale=3 ; $copyprogress / $sourcesize * 100" | bc | xargs echo -n ; echo % completed ; sleep 1 ; done
Also you can check whether cp command is still running by using pidof and use ps to check the full command that is being executed:
progressand runprogress -mand it should be able to tell you. If your command is not a well-known command runprogress -m -c my_command. Or installpv, which also works but it requires the PID to be supplied, as inpv -d 1234.