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          <h2>What is Advanced Copy?</h2>

<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&#39;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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	<li>Log into the Linux device</li>
	<li>Launch a terminal and run the following commands
	<div class="codeBlock"># download coreutils<br />
	wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.32.tar.xz<br />
	# extract the coreutils tar.xz<br />
	tar xvJf coreutils-8.32.tar.xz<br />
	# cd into the extracted coreutils directory<br />
	cd coreutils-8.32<br />
	# download the advance copy/move patch file<br />
	wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jarun/advcpmv/master/advcpmv-0.8-8.32.patch<br />
	# apply the patch file<br />
	patch -p1 -i advcpmv-0.8-8.32.patch<br />
	# prepare the current directory for building<br />
	./configure<br />
	# build the patch cp and make binaries<br />
	make<br />
	# copy the new patch cp and mv commands for use<br />
	sudo cp ./src/cp /usr/local/bin/cp &amp;&amp; sudo cp ./src/mv /usr/local/bin/mv<br />
	# cd back to user home<br />
	cd ~<br />
	# test a file copy with progress bar functionality by using -g or --progress-bar<br />
	cp large-test large-test-copy -g</div>
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