Execute command with progress

[guilt]

Set up a way to execute commands and monitor them.

e.g.:

progress -C "cp -a /media/cdrom/x /storage/c/"

will fork cp in the background, and monitor it on the stdin. This allows me to run the progress and cp in one tty only.

[Xfennec]

The shell is probably better than us for this, I think:
cp -a /media/cdrom/x /storage/c/ & progress -mp $! (it's one of our example in the readme)

[guilt]

There are some quirky scenarios, such as usage by ssh, sudo where a single command works better. Hence requested.

[cheater]

you can use bash -c 'cp -a /media/cdrom/x /storage/c/ & progress -mp $!' and that will give you just one command. I vote on closing this down as your use case is covered and implementing an alternative solution along your request would make this software much more complex, unnecessarily.