Download coreutils version 8.21 (TODO: port it for 8.31) and patch it.
cd /tmp
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.21.tar.xz
tar -xvJf coreutils-8.21.tar.xz
cd coreutils-8.21
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/atdt/advcpmv/master/advcpmv-0.5-8.21.patch
patch -p1 -i advcpmv-0.5-8.21.patch
Run:
export FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1
./configure
make
Compiled binary will src/cp and src/mv
New option will be -g or --progress-bar
Output exemple:
0 files copied so far... 194.4 MiB / 8.4 GiB
[||--------------------------------------------------------------------------------] 2.3 %
Copying at 3.3 MiB/s (about 0h 5m 47s remaining)
/home/user/file.mp4 194.4 MiB / 446.1 MiB
[||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||----------------------------------------------] 43.6 %