Copy (cp) with progress bar
Many times you’d like to see the progress of a copy but sadly cp doesn’t have that feature.
Many posts online will show bash scripts that pipe cp into grep/awk/etc or use tools like pv. Alas, there is a much more simple way. Use rsync.
rsync -a --progress SOURCE_FOLDER DESTINATION_FOLDER
Throw the --stats flag for some stats after the transfer is done.
rsync -a --stats --progress SOURCE_FOLDER DESTINATION_FOLDER