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+ <title>Add Progress Bar Output to Native Linux Copy (cp) and Move (mv) Commands</title>
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+ <meta name="author" content="i12bretro">
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+ <meta name="description" content="Add Progress Bar Output to Native Linux Copy (cp) and Move (mv) Commands">
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+ <meta name="revised" content="08/20/2022 09:46:55 AM" />
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+ <h1>Add Progress Bar Output to Native Linux Copy (cp) and Move (mv) Commands</h1>
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+ </div>
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+ <div></div>
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+ <div id="content">
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+ <h2>What is Advanced Copy?</h2>
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+<blockquote><em>Advanced Copy is a mod for the GNU cp and GNU mv tools which adds a progress bar and provides some info on what's going on. It was written by Florian Zwicke and released under the GPL. -<a href="https://github.com/jarun/advcpmv/" target="_blank">https://github.com/jarun/advcpmv/</a></em></blockquote>
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+<ol>
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+ <li>Log into the Linux device</li>
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+ <li>Launch a terminal and run the following commands
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+ <div class="codeBlock"># download coreutils<br />
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+ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.32.tar.xz<br />
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+ # extract the coreutils tar.xz<br />
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+ tar xvJf coreutils-8.32.tar.xz<br />
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+ # cd into the extracted coreutils directory<br />
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+ cd coreutils-8.32<br />
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+ # download the advance copy/move patch file<br />
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+ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jarun/advcpmv/master/advcpmv-0.8-8.32.patch<br />
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+ # apply the patch file<br />
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+ patch -p1 -i advcpmv-0.8-8.32.patch<br />
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+ # prepare the current directory for building<br />
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+ ./configure<br />
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+ # build the patch cp and make binaries<br />
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+ make<br />
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+ # copy the new patch cp and mv commands for use<br />
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+ sudo cp ./src/cp /usr/local/bin/cp && sudo cp ./src/mv /usr/local/bin/mv<br />
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+ # cd back to user home<br />
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+ cd ~<br />
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+ # test a file copy with progress bar functionality by using -g or --progress-bar<br />
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+ cp large-test large-test-copy -g</div>
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+ </li>
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+</ol>
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+<h2> </h2> </div>
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+ </div>
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+ </body>
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+ </html>
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