So I have a shell script that basicly backs up one server to another server. In the process I have to cp a very large directory (140GB) to another location, in the shell script I would love to have it run a real time stopwatch type counter starting from 0:00 as the files are copying.

Possible?

EDIT: This is *not* a progress bar idea :) Just a simple stopwatch timer so you can see how much time is elapsed, rather then the time until the pain is over :)