In Hadoop, how to show current process of -copyFromLocal
CopyFromLocal does not have the ability to display the file copy progress. Alternatively, you could open another shell and run the $ watch hadoop fs -ls <filenameyouarecopying>. This will display the file and its size once every 2.0 seconds.
It is also possible to track the progress of reading of the local file using pv command and pipe the file content to hdfs dfs stdin:
pv mylargefile.txt | hdfs dfs -put - /path/to/file/on/hdfs/mylargefile.txt