How to copy files and know exact time taken ?

[St Devious]

In windows is there any command, script, software that will tell me the exact time taken to copy a bunch of files to another folder ?

[BigDid]

Hi,

Supercopier2 ?

http://supercopier.sfxteam.org/?q=node/35

Did

[worldnet]

That's already a bit less vague. No, there are no logs of that. If you copy via other tools you can get more exact measurements.


The Windows box basically updates itself whenever speed changes. Thus when performance increases or drops temporarily the remaining time changes. It's quite hard to get precise estimates when performance fluctuates a lot.

[von_Runkel]

If you are running Vista, Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7, there is a built in command called robocopy that you can use for this. The syntax is very simple:

robocopy <sourcedir> <destdir>

When finished, the utility gives all the timings you want.

If you are running Windows XP, you need to download the Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit (which is free):

http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

Robocopy is a great tool. I've been using it since NT 3.51

[gamestationco]

von_Runkel, that was brilliant find. Thanks. Do we have other similar utilities for Linux?

Regards,
gamestationco

[communist]

Under Linux use time:
time cp <source> <target>

time also works other commands.

[multimediaman]

rsync might be handy as well :)