Emma Thorpe
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The transfer looked hung. rsync prints nothing while it builds its file list, which on fifty thousand files over USB is several minutes of silence, and --info=progress2 does not help: with incremental recursion its percentage is computed against a list rsync has not finished discovering, so it moves backwards as often as forwards. The script now counts what needs copying first and says so, then renders its own single line that rewrites in place, showing the album currently going across and a percentage against a total that is actually known. Counting costs a second pass over the tree. That is the price of a percentage meaning something, and it is cheaper than staring at a blank terminal wondering whether the thing has died. Directories are excluded from the count. rsync reports those too, and including them puts the figure past a hundred per cent. Piped to a log the line becomes a plain one every thirty seconds, because a log full of carriage returns and escape codes is not a log anybody reads.