Rsync Show Progress Bar While Copying Files

How do I show progress while copying files using rsync locally or remotely?

You need to use the --progress option which show progress during file transfer. The syntax is as follows:

sync -av --progress /path/to/*.mp3 /nfs
rsync -av --progress /path/to/*.avi -e user@remote.example.com:/data

Sample output:

movie1.avi
   367071842 100%   40.49MB/s    0:00:08 (xfer#1, to-check=6/7)
movie2.avi
   367550238 100%   46.39MB/s    0:00:07 (xfer#2, to-check=5/7)
....
......
..
sent 2571434590 bytes  received 145 bytes  7274214.24 bytes/sec
total size is 2571120062  speedup is 1.00