Check copy progress in terminal

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If we want to check the progress of a copy process in terminal, then we can use the rsync command.

man rsync:

rsync - a fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool

rsync works similarly as cp command. For example:

rsync source destination

To see the progress, add the –progress flag to rsync

rsync --progress source destination

To see it in human-readable format:

rsync -ah --progress source destination