I love pv. It's great because it's pretty much a drop-in for "cat" that gives you fancy progress bars. But for copy I tend to use "rsync -aP". It has progress b

I love pv. It's great because it's pretty much a drop-in for "cat" that gives you fancy progress bars. But for copy I tend to use "rsync -aP". It has progress but not a bar and just feels more like a replacement for cp to me.