![advcpmv](https://web.archive.org/web/20131217004029im_/http://beatex.org/web/advcopy/advcpmv-screen-20130313.png)

## Advanced Copy ##

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.

This repository exists because the [Advanced Copy](http://beatex.org/web/advancedcopy.html) website appears to be dead. You can still find it via the [Internet Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20131115171331/http://beatex.org/web/advancedcopy.html).

advcpmv-0.5-8.21.patch was the last patch released by the author (on February 14, 2013). advcpmv-0.6-8.24.patch (and following) are simply a rebase of that on top of the 8.24 version of coreutils.

## Build instructions

Run the following command to download, patch, compile coreutils and generate the files: `./advcpmv/advcp` and `./advcpmv/advmv`.

```
curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jarun/advcpmv/master/install.sh --create-dirs -o ./advcpmv/install.sh" && (cd advcpmv && sh install.sh)
```

To install an older version than the latest one, you can specify the version by passing it as an argument to the install script. For example, if you want to install `advcpmv-0.8-8.32.patch` you would modify the second command above like so.

```
(cd advcpmv && sh install.sh 0.8 8.32)
```

## Usage

### Change your behaviour

You can install the binaries and use `cpg -g` and `mvg -g` instead of cp and mv:

```
sudo mv ./advcpmv/advcp /usr/local/bin/cpg
sudo mv ./advcpmv/advmv /usr/local/bin/mvg
```

Progress bar does not work with reflink (introduced v9.0 onwards). So reflink is disabled if using progress bar, left unchanged otherwise.

### Alias

You can install the binaries and create aliases for bash (or whatever you use)

```
sudo mv ./advcpmv/advcp /usr/local/bin/
sudo mv ./advcpmv/advmv /usr/local/bin/
echo alias cp '/usr/local/bin/advcp -g' >> ~/.bashrc
echo alias mv '/usr/local/bin/advmv -g' >> ~/.bashrc
```

## Upstream merge

The original author sent the patch to the team, that maintains the GNU CoreUtils. They won't merge this patch, because mv and cp are feature complete.