Advancedcopygnucoreutilities.md

Adding a progress bar to GNU Core Utilities copy & move.

Advanced Copy is an awesome mod for GNU Core Utilities that adds a handy progress bar to cp & mv. This can be super helpfully when copying or moving large files or directories, because you'll be able to see how far along the process is.

The install process is extremely simple. Just follow the commands below typing them into a terminal & then logout / log back in to finish..

• Download GNU Core Utilities....

wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.32.tar.xz

• Extract the downloaded file & move into the directory....

tar xvJf coreutils-8.32.tar.xz && cd coreutils-8.32/

• Download the Advanced Copy patch....

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jarun/advcpmv/master/advcpmv-0.8-8.32.patch

• Apply the patch that you just downloaded....

patch -p1 -i advcpmv-0.8-8.32.patch

• Compile GNU Core Utilities with the Advanced Copy patch applied....

./configure && make

• Install the newly compiled cp & mv....

sudo mv ./src/cp /usr/local/bin/cpg && sudo mv ./src/mv /usr/local/bin/mvg

• Create aliases in your .bashrc or .bash_aliases....

alias cp='cp -gR' >> ~/.bashrc_aliases
alias mv='mv -g' >> ~/.bashrc_aliases

• Logout and then log back in for everything to start working....