In short, I had some big files inside folders I needed to copy from one directory to another and wanted to know what the progress. This immediately took me to this article and I’m simply sharing the command here.
rsync --info=progress2 -auvz /path_to_source_directory/ /somewhere/destination_directory/
This will display the progress with some information like write speed. Really helpful.
Source: https://www.zylk.net/en/web-2-0/blog/-/blogs/how-to-copy-files-in-linux-faster-and-safer-than-cp