In order to make rsync less boring, I've hacked a file progress indicator into rsync, using vfdlib.

You can download it here.

This binary is based on rsync 2.5.5. Enable the empeg display progress indicator by using the --empeg-progress command line switch. Otherwise, the binary works exactly the same as the non-hacked version that was available at the same location. Because this version is stripped, it's much smaller than its predecessor.

The binary does not require hijack.

Source to the hack is included. Have fun,

Pim