Copy files with a progress bar

cpx alias

alias cpx="rsync -ah --progress"

Example:

cpx -r source-folder/ path-to-destination/

Description:

• Replacement for standard cp that gives you progress bars and ETAs
• Maintains file permissions (rsync -a)
• Display progress in human-readable format (rsync -h)
• Takes -r just like standard cp for recursive copies

Misc.

You can actually use curl locally if you’re a weirdo to get the same result (although it doesn’t maintain file permissions)

curl -o path-to-destination/ FILE://source-folder/