Certainly the tests I am having are showing some really good speed advantages in Linux anyways.
Speed advantages compared to what? While implementing these commands in Perl can be a good exercise, I would be very surprised if a Perl program is faster than the system rm, mv, and cp commands, all of which are implemented in C on GNU systems — and most distributions of Linux use the GNU coreutils package. All of those commands accept the -v option to list the files on which they act and that can be easily translated to "running dots" with Awk: (untested)
cp -v $FROM $TO | awk '{print "."}'
I am not entirely convinced that Perl is the right tool for this job, unless, again, you are doing this as a programming exercise.