This is a small command line program that basically just copies files and directories from one location to another. It is similar to the standard `cp' command except that it provides progress updates during copy operations (but admittedly has a lot less options and probably a lot more security vulnerabilities compared to the former).
copy [OPTION...] SOURCE... DESTINATION
-c SIZE, --chunk-size=SIZE Set the size of the inidividual chunks of
data that will be read and written during
copy operations to SIZE bytes. The default
for this value is 4000 bytes (4kB).
-o, --preserve-ownership Preserve ownership.
-p, --preserve-permissions Preserve permissions.
-P, --preserve-all Preserve all timestamp, ownership, and
permission data.
-t, --preserve-timestamp Preserve timestamps.
-u INTERVAL, --update-interval=INTERVAL
Set the progress update interval to every
INTERVAL seconds. The default for this
value 0.5 seconds.
-V, --verify Perform a MD5 checksum verification after
all copy operations are finished to ensure
integrity of the files. Note that using
this option may take considerably more time
to complete.
--no-progress Do not show any progress updates during
copy operations.
--no-report Do not show completion report after all
copy operations are finished.
--no-sound Do not play notification sound when all
operations are finished.
NOTE: This option only exists if the
program was compiled with sound
support!
-h, --help Print this message and exit.
-v, --version Print version information and exit.
Some Windows code has been added but this program will most likely only run on Linux machines. It was written on Ubuntu 12.04.
To set up the build environment, navigate to the copy source directory and run:
./autogen.sh
To configure:
./configure
If you would like to enable the handy notification sound upon completion of all copy operations, make sure SDL and SDL_sound are installed on your machine, and then run:
./configure --enable-sound
To compile:
make
And finally to install to the default location of /usr/local/bin:
sudo make install
If you would like to install to another location (such as /usr/bin in the following example), use the 'prefix' variable:
sudo make prefix=/usr install
If the '--enable-sound' option was used earlier when calling ./configure, the audio file 'complete.oga' will be installed at: ${prefix}/share/copy/sounds/complete.oga.