gcp is a user-friendly file copier.
Its name used to stand for “Goffi’s CoPier”, but was changed into a recursive acronym: Gcp CoPier.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Progress bar.
- gcp keeps copying even when there is an issue: it just skips the file, logs an error and goes on.
- Logging: gcp writes what it’s doing to a log file; this allows you to know which files were effectively copied.
- Fixing file names to be compatible with the target filesystem (e.g. removing incompatible chars like ? or * on FAT).
- Queue: if you launch a copy when another copy is already running, the files are added to the first queue; this optimizes hard drive head movement and filesystem fragmentation.
- Files saving: you can keep track of the files you have copied, and copy them again later (useful when, for example, you copy some free music to your friends on a regular basis).
- gcp will be approximately option-compatible with cp.
Website: github.com/aelafifi/gcp
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Developer: Jérôme Poisson
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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Related Software
| Alternatives to cp | |
|---|---|
| xcp | Extended cp written in Rust |
| fcp | Significantly faster alternative to cp |
| gcp | Goffi's cp, a fancy file copier |
| pycp | cp and mv with a progressbar |
| rsync | Fast incremental file transfer |
| Fast Unix Commands | Provides alternatives for rm and cp |
| renameutils | Make copying files faster and less cumbersome |
| cpy-cli | Accepts globs and creates non-existent destination directories. |
| cpz | Zippy alternative to cp |
| lunas | Syncing tool handling more than two directories locally and remotely |
| BCMR | Better Copy Move Remove |
| cpx | Modern replacement for the traditional cp command |
| advcpmv | Patch for cp |
| RCP Tools | Manage large filesets |
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