BCMR

Better Copy Move Remove — A modern, safe CLI tool for file operations with progress display, resume, and remote copy.

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Installation, shell integration, CLI reference, configuration, and more.

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Highlights

📊 Progress Display — Fancy TUI box with gradient bar, ETA, speed, per-file tracking. Plain text mode for logs and pipes
🔄 Resume & Verify — Resume interrupted transfers with mtime, size, or strict BLAKE3 hash. Verify integrity after copy
🌐 Remote Copy (SSH) — Upload and download via SSH with SCP-like syntax
⚡ Fast by Default — Reflink (CoW), copy_file_range on Linux, sparse file detection, pipeline scan+copy
🛡️ Safe Operations — Dry-run preview, overwrite prompts, regex exclusions, atomic writes
🔄 Self-Update — bcmr update to update in place; background update check on every run
🎨 Configurable — Custom color gradients, bar characters, border styles via TOML config

Install

Homebrew (macOS / Linux)

brew install Bengerthelorf/tap/bcmr

Install Script

curl -fsSL https://app.snaix.homes/bcmr/install | bash

Cargo

cargo install bcmr

Pre-built Binaries

Download from Releases — available for Linux (x86_64/ARM64), macOS (Intel/Apple Silicon), Windows (x86_64/ARM64), and FreeBSD.

From Source

git clone https://github.com/Bengerthelorf/bcmr.git
cd bcmr
cargo build --release

Quick Start

# Copy files
bcmr copy document.txt backup/
bcmr copy -r projects/ backup/

# Move files
bcmr move old_file.txt new_location/
bcmr move -r old_project/ new_location/

# Remove files
bcmr remove -r old_project/
bcmr remove -i file1.txt file2.txt    # interactive

# Dry run — preview without changes
bcmr copy -r -n projects/ backup/

# Resume interrupted copy
bcmr copy -C large_file.iso /backup/

# Remote copy via SSH
bcmr copy local.txt user@host:/remote/
bcmr copy user@host:/remote/file.txt ./

# Parallel SCP transfers (4 workers)
bcmr copy -P 4 *.bin user@host:/backup/
bcmr copy -P 8 -r project/ user@host:/backup/

Shell Integration

# Add to ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc:
eval "$(bcmr init zsh --cmd b)"    # creates bcp, bmv, brm

# Or replace native commands:
eval "$(bcmr init zsh --cmd '')"   # creates cp, mv, rm

Need help? Check the Getting Started guide, or browse the full Documentation.

Configuration

Create ~/.config/bcmr/config.toml:

[progress]
style = "fancy"

[progress.theme]
bar_gradient = ["#CABBE9", "#7E6EAC"]
bar_complete_char = "█"
bar_incomplete_char = "░"
border_color = "#9E8BCA"

[progress.layout]
box_style = "rounded"    # "rounded", "double", "heavy", "single"

[copy]
reflink = "auto"         # "auto" or "never"
sparse = "auto"          # "auto" or "never"

[scp]
parallel_transfers = 4   # default number of parallel SCP workers
compression = "auto"     # "auto", "force", or "off"

update_check = "notify"  # "notify", "quiet", or "off"

Contributing

Issues and PRs welcome! See GitHub Issues.

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