Add some sort of reporting about ctrl HOT 3 CLOSED

I've been toying with the idea of displaying progress bars (with \r) while the files are being copied or moved. Not sure if this is necessary, but it would be nice to have.

OK maybe not a progress bar, just a progress percentage like this :

$ ctrl -V
Copying /home/ctrl/foo to /tmp/foo [50% | 175 KB / 350 KB]

Then when it finishes, it displays [100% | file size / file size] and moves on to the next file :

Copying /home/ctrl/foo to /tmp/foo [100% | 350 KB / 350 KB]
Copying /home/ctrl/bar to /tmp/bar [...]

This could be a decent compromise between a full blown progress bar and a binary DONE/NOT DONE progress report.

Writing tests for this should be interesting

I'm also not sure how well it's gonna work on Windows

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I did some digging and realized that in order for there to be a progress bar, the copy and move functions of the filesystem module should support this feature. Right now though they're only thin wrappers around std.file.copy and std.file.move respectively, which don't report progress. This leaves me with two choices :

• Call copy in the background, then somehow track the progress in the foreground
• Write my own version of copy and move that report progress, using std.stdio.File under the hood

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Implemented a basic status reporting of OK/Failed, I'll close this issue for now until I can work on the real-time progress functionality.

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