Just came across this article on an "advanced copy" command: http://www.tecmint.com/advanced-copy-command-shows-progress-bar-while-copyin...

Wasn't to keen on recompiling from source etc.

However, when looking through my Linux Mint's Synaptic, I came across "gcp":

"gcp is an advanced command line file copy system with an interface similar to that of cp. It features: - transfer progression indication - continuous copying on error (skip to next file) - copy status logging - name mangling to handle target filesystem limitations - forced copy serialization - transfer lists management"

Here is an example output:

mymachine:[110]~/media>gcp -r maps/ maps.bak Copying 2.26 GiB 100% |##############################| 148.01 M/s Time: 00:00:16

Quite funky for large copy-operations on the command-line, where you'd like to have some kind of progress indicator.

Cheers, Peter