mvx / cpx

Enhanced mv and cp commands with directory merging and progress bars.

Installation

cargo install --path .

This installs both mvx (move) and cpx (copy) binaries.

Usage

mvx [OPTIONS] <SOURCES>... <DEST>
cpx [OPTIONS] <SOURCES>... <DEST>

Options

Features

Directory Merging

Unlike standard mv/cp, when the destination is an existing directory, mvx/cpx merges contents instead of nesting:

# Standard mv: creates dest/source_dir/
mv source_dir/ dest/

# mvx: merges source_dir/* into dest/*
mvx source_dir/ dest/

Files unique to the destination are preserved. Overlapping files require -f to overwrite.

Safe by Default

Existing files are never overwritten unless -f is specified:

# Fails if dest/file.txt exists
mvx file.txt dest/

# Overwrites dest/file.txt if it exists
mvx -f file.txt dest/

Automatic Directory Creation

Destination directories are created automatically:

# Creates /path/to/new/dest/ if it doesn't exist
mvx file.txt /path/to/new/dest/

Progress Bars

Cross-device operations display progress bars with transfer speed and ETA:

   1.2 GiB [========>-------------------------------]  312 MiB (  45.2 MiB/s, ETA: 00:00:21 ) file.iso -> /mnt/backup/file.iso

Use -q to suppress progress output.

Examples

# Move a single file
mvx file.txt /backup/

# Copy multiple files to a directory
cpx file1.txt file2.txt /dest/

# Merge directories (preserve existing, fail on conflicts)
mvx source_dir/ dest_dir/

# Merge directories (overwrite conflicts)
mvx -f source_dir/ dest_dir/

# Copy with progress bar suppressed
cpx -q large_file.iso /mnt/usb/

Differences from mv/cp

License

MIT License