cp with a progress bar

This is sweet.

% cp_p /mnt/raid/pub/iso/debian/debian-2.2r4potato-i386-netinst.iso /dev/null
76% [===========================================> ]

Details at the link.

Not duplicated (yet) at home because 'home' is OS X and doesn't have strace.* Still ... that's a nice hack.


*Yes, I know about ktrace.