Monitoring coreutils basic operation progress, with progress app

While copying or moving stuff across locations in my computer, using terminal, most of the time I want to have a progress reporting of how much has been copied or moved. This can be easily achieved using a neat little tool called progress. To use it, you have to install it first.

To install progress

$ sudo apt install progress -y

Start you coreutils basic operation (cp, mv, dd, tar, gzip/gunzip, cat, etc.)

$ cp CentOS-8.1.1911-x86_64-dvd1.iso /data/

Monitor the progress using progress. Just run progress:

$ progress

To continuously see the progress, just use the -m option. It will update regularly, and speed and estimated remaining time will be shown 

$ progress -m