CP Command In Linux + SHOW Transfer Progress 🚀

In this video we're gonna talk about "cp", which is short for copy and is another essential command that we use to... well, copy stuff from one place to another - one or more files or entire directory structures all at once. Oh, and since I've never met a single person who "straight up" knows how to display progress for a large file operation - I'm gonna show you a few different ways to do it at the end, so stick around.

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Chapters:

0:00 - Intro
0:54 - Command syntax
1:14 - Basic examples
2:36 - Copy multiple files
2:45 - Target flag -t
3:16 - Copy directories -r
3:58 - Interactive mode -i
4:36 - Force flag -f
5:00 - No overwriting -n
5:15 - Update newer -u
5:37 - Create backups -b
5:55 - Custom suffix -S
6:14 - Create symlinks -s
6:34 - Create hard links -l
7:30 - Dereference -L
7:40 - No dereference -P
7:48 - Archive flag -a
8:05 - Preserve option
8:23 - Verbose flag -v
8:54 - Query watchers (1)
9:19 - pv / progress / bar / gcp (2)
9:52 - rsync -rP (--progress) (3)

[bfipzfy]

I love these videos. Always learn something new b

[Axlefublr]

"My name is Nick and this is cp" ✍🔥

[tobiasfedder]

Damn, you got me with the rsync fake out. 👍

[towesc]

Thanks for sharing. over 20 years on Linux and never seen or came across mkcd, brilliant stuff, thanks man.

[kadanseward]

Yo, you gotta make more content man! Yours are so good!

[comoyun]

I love the way you explain everything in detail, and I learn something new from your videos every time even when covering the basics. Thank you and please upload more))

[felipedonadon]

We missed you these weeks, brother. Glad to know you're back on track, I hope everything is well! Thanks for another video!

[joseph]

we need you and your beautiful voice back

[astralchan]

Amazing video! I agree I think that easiest approach for copy progress is rsync. I also love using rsync over ssh to update my server files / etc. rsync options go deep, I can't wait to see your video on it if you make one! ^^

[Axlefublr]

mkcd is a brilliant idea! implemented it for myself as well now
always noticed a slight annoyance in making a directory, then moving to it (by typing out its name again) and then creating some files inside of there. mkcd makes that easier :)

[MattKasdorf]

Oh, I always used a tar | tar command line to copy directories full of data, but was always frustrated by the lack of a progress indicator (other than see the filenames fill the screen).

[eloniusz]

When I've seen the option `-b` I was like "That's some -bs! I always had to struggle with loops and `sed` in my scripts to achieve that!" I was super happy until I realized that this option is not POSIX. I like my scripts to be portable because I sometimes use them on some weirs OSes. Could you consider distinguishing POSIX options in your videos?

[chdbeor]

you also must have to make a video "how to extract .tar file and install it " that will be helpful

[yan-amar]

7:02 So it's not just me, the "source" section of yt videos has disappeared, right?