You can get details of what cp command is doing using cp -v or –verbose options. cp -v or –verbose option will print each file as it gets copied.
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touch myfile{1..3} ## create some files and directories mkdir mydir cp -v myfile* mydir ## returns ## ‘myfile1’ -> ‘mydir/myfile1’ ## ‘myfile2’ -> ‘mydir/myfile2’ ## ‘myfile3’ -> ‘mydir/myfile3’ rm -r my* |