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While some PowerShell cmdlets support progress displays, Copy-Item does not.

For those that do support progress displays, such as Invoke-WebRequest, the logic is usually reversed. Progress is shown by default, and must be silenced on demand, with $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
While PowerShell offers the Write-Progress cmdlet for creating your own progress displays, this won't help you here, as you cannot track the internal progress of a single object being processed by another command.

However, you can simply call cmd.exes internal copy command from PowerShell, via cmd /c:

cmd /c copy /z C:\Source\File.exe C:\Destination\

Note:

As Jeroen Mostert points out, consider using robocopy.exe instead (which you can equally call from PowerShell) - see his comment on the question for details.

Answer from mklement0 on Stack Overflow

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While some PowerShell cmdlets support progress displays, Copy-Item does not.

For those that do support progress displays, such as Invoke-WebRequest, the logic is usually reversed. Progress is shown by default, and must be silenced on demand, with $ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
While PowerShell offers the Write-Progress cmdlet for creating your own progress displays, this won't help you here, as you cannot track the internal progress of a single object being processed by another command.

However, you can simply call cmd.exes internal copy command from PowerShell, via cmd /c:

cmd /c copy /z C:\Source\File.exe C:\Destination\

Note:

As Jeroen Mostert points out, consider using robocopy.exe instead (which you can equally call from PowerShell) - see his comment on the question for details.

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March 17, 2023 - The module “Z” is a handy tool that can save you lots of time when navigating around your terminal. In this blog-post, we’ll cover how to install it to user scope, how to configure it by jumping around the terminal to different places, and how it saves lots of time in the long run.

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Haven't used Z in PowerShell, but I have the feeling you're asking for something fzf-based. Fzf itself is mainly a generic 'menu' tool but it comes with various shell integrations prepackaged, e.g. for Bash's cd Tab completion as well as its Ctrl-R history search.

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