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RCP Tools- manage large filesets

May 13, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

RCP Tools is a Rust-based collection of command-line utilities for managing large filesets on Linux systems and across remote hosts.

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advcpmv – patch for cp

May 12, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

advcpmv is a maintained patch set for Core Utilities that extends cp and mv with progress-aware transfer output.

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cpx – modern replacement for the traditional cp command

May 11, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cpx is a command-line utility for Linux that rethinks the classic cp command with an emphasis on speed, resilience.

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BCMR – Better Copy Move Remove

January 14, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

BCMR is a command-line tool written in Rust that lets you elegantly copy, move, and remove files.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

lunas – syncing cli tool

October 27, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lunas is a syncing cli tool that can handle more than two directories locally and remotely.

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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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Documentation

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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Documentation

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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Documentation

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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Documentation

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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