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coreutils package

  1. Bug #64067
  2. Comment #31

Comment 31 for bug 64067

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Høst (helvete) wrote :

Hello. There are a coreutils package with "advanced" cp and mv that can show the progress bar on file operations like copy/move.
I installed it on my system and extracted the cp and mv binaries.

hoest@hoest:~$ which mv
/usr/local/bin/mv
hoest@hoest:~$ which cp
/usr/local/bin/cp

You need to place the 2 binaries in that locations. After, put this 2 aliases in your .bashrc:

alias cp='/usr/local/bin/cp -g'
alias mv='/usr/local/bin/mv -g'

'-g' is the argument that tells to them command to show the progress bar. Hope it works