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## Advanced Copy ##
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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.
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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).
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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.
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## Build instructions
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Run the following command to download, patch, compile coreutils and generate the files: `./advcpmv/advcp` and `./advcpmv/advmv`.
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```
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curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jarun/advcpmv/master/install.sh --create-dirs -o ./advcpmv/install.sh" && (cd advcpmv && sh install.sh)
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```
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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.
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```
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(cd advcpmv && sh install.sh 0.8 8.32)
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```
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## Usage
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### Change your behaviour
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You can install the binaries and use `cpg -g` and `mvg -g` instead of cp and mv:
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```
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sudo mv ./advcpmv/advcp /usr/local/bin/cpg
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sudo mv ./advcpmv/advmv /usr/local/bin/mvg
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```
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Progress bar does not work with reflink (introduced v9.0 onwards). So reflink is disabled if using progress bar, left unchanged otherwise.
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### Alias
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You can install the binaries and create aliases for bash (or whatever you use)
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```
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sudo mv ./advcpmv/advcp /usr/local/bin/
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sudo mv ./advcpmv/advmv /usr/local/bin/
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echo alias cp '/usr/local/bin/advcp -g' >> ~/.bashrc
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echo alias mv '/usr/local/bin/advmv -g' >> ~/.bashrc
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```
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## Upstream merge
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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.
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