is there a way to display the file progress percentage even when the copy is being done through a pipe?

[ClioCJS]

Currently there is not. I assume that perhaps the powers that be had to check if it is being piped, and turn off the direct writes? Either that, or somehow, piping destroys them. But I'm trying to get them to basically evade the pipe. Just the percentage progress, nothing more.

 

[Joe Caverly]

You asked a similar question back in August of 2023.

Ref: strange piping question - is there a way to allow the move command's percentage to still display?

Joe

 

[rconn]

Currently there is not. I assume that perhaps the powers that be had to check if it is being piped, and turn off the direct writes? Either that, or somehow, piping destroys them. But I'm trying to get them to basically evade the pipe. Just the percentage progress, nothing more.

How are you copying through a pipe? (Exact syntax please.)

Not sure what you mean by "direct writes". But the percentage copied display comes from the Windows CopyFileEx API callback. And it's going to be written to STDOUT, so if you're redirecting / piping STDOUT somewhere you won't see it.

 

[ClioCJS]

It's on my mind a lot I guess.

The direct writes were just speculation.

The syntax I use is:

*copy whatever.txt c:\wherever |& postprocessor.py

 

[rconn]

Copy /G displays the % copied on STDOUT, but you've sent STDOUT to "postprocessor.py".

So your options are either to modify your postprocessor.py to handle the % copied strings, or to use something like TEE between COPY and POSTPROCESSOR.PY.

 

[ClioCJS]

You're not gonna believe this, but postprocessor.py has been in use for months, handles input character by character, and doesn't seem to receive these characters.

At this point I'm looking at the python code, wondering where they could be disappearing to. Could sys.stdout.flush() be discarding them somehow? Or maybe somewhere else in my code?

It's pretty simple... Random colors, emojis, double-height lines...

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