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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

cpz – zippy alternative to cp

July 24, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cpz (cp zippy) is a zippy alternative to cp, a tool to copy files and directories. It focuses on maximizing performance.

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cpy-cli – command-line utility to copy files

December 1, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cpy-cli is a user-friendly command-line tool which copies files. It accepts globs and creates non-existent destination directories.

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rsync – fast incremental file transfer

October 25, 2023 Steve Emms System Software

rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer. It copies files either to or from a remote host, or locally.

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renameutils – programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome

August 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The file renaming utilities (renameutils for short) are a set of programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome.

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Fast Unix Commands – provides alternatives for rm and cp

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Fast Unix Commands provides modern UNIX commands.The goals of the project are to provide performance, efficiency, and usability.

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xcp – extended cp

May 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xcp is a (partial) clone of the Unix cp command .It is not intended as a full replacement, but as a companion utility. Written in Rust.

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fcp – faster alternative to cp

May 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fcp is a significantly faster alternative to the classic Unix cp command. It’s optimized for systems with an SSD.

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gcp – user-friendly file copier

May 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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.

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pycp – cp and mv with a progressbar

August 24, 2021 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pycp is an alternative to the cp and mv commands. pycp adds a progress bar. pycp is inspired by the library progressbar.

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