Advanced Copy is a mod for the GNU cp and GNU mv tools which adds a progress bar and provides some info on what's going on. It was written by Florian Zwicke and released under the GPL.
This repository exists because the Advanced Copy website appears to be dead. You can still find it via the Internet Archive.
advcpmv-0.5-8.21.patch was the last patch released by the author (on February 14, 2013). advcpmv-0.6-8.24.patch (and following) are simply a rebase of that on top of the 8.24 version of coreutils.
The latest GNU Core Utilities source can be found here: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/
wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.32.tar.xz
tar xvJf coreutils-8.32.tar.xz
cd coreutils-8.32/
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jarun/advcpmv/master/advcpmv-0.8-8.32.patch
patch -p1 -i advcpmv-0.8-8.32.patch
./configure
make
You can install the binaries and use cpg -g and mvg -g instead of cp and mv
sudo mv ./src/cp /usr/local/bin/cpg
sudo mv ./src/mv /usr/local/bin/mvg
You can install the binaries and create aliases for bash (or whatever you use)
sudo mv ./src/cp /usr/local/bin/advcp
sudo mv ./src/mv /usr/local/bin/advmv
echo alias cp '/usr/local/bin/advcp -g' >> ~/.bashrc
echo alias mv '/usr/local/bin/advmv -g' >> ~/.bashrc
The original author sent the patch to the team, that maintains the GNU CoreUtils. They won't merge this patch, because mv and cp are feature complete.