Oct 26, 2008 · When scripting in bash or any other shell in *NIX, while running a command that will take more than a few seconds, a progress bar is needed. For example, copying a big file, opening a big tar file.

May 13, 2014 · the first answer explains the ASCII trick used to make a progress bar on one line, then the other answers give you different ways to do it. the best way would be to use the bar program.

Using a bash only script, how can you provide a bash progress indicator? For example, when I run a command from bash - while that command is executing - let the user know that something is still happening.

Aug 20, 2011 · I suppose I could compare the number of files in the source directory to the number of files in the target directory as cp progresses, or perhaps do it with folder size instead? I tried to find examples, but all bash progress bars seem to be written for copying single files.

Jun 19, 2015 · I am developing a Linux's Bash shell script that extracts data from a text file leaving only the numbers. These are my example parsed data: 3 4 4 5 6 7 8 8 9 11 I would like to create a simple text-mode bar chart like this one, but corresponding to these values: Details: I need the graphic chart to be vertical.

Oct 27, 2021 · For example, both of the following commands write solely bar to standard output: $ false && echo foo || echo bar $ true || echo foo && echo bar In the first case, the false is a command that exits with the status of 1 $ false $ echo $? 1 which means echo foo does not run (i.e., shortcircuiting echo foo). Then the command echo bar is executed.

Dec 20, 2015 · A popular method for getting progress bars on the command line is to use the carriage return character, which overwrites the previous line, as seen in this script: #!/bin/bash echo -ne '[# ] 25%...

Jul 21, 2012 · I'm using the following script to go through a large list of domains in whois and find the registrar (useful for server/DNS migrations) and it works fine. However I am wanting to incorporate a progress bar into it just for the sake of convenience. Here's my script, if it can be improved let me know: #!/bin/bash for f in `cat /var/www/vhosts ...

Jul 10, 2018 · I would like to show a progress bar while running the following code. I'm calling a script within this code that could take a while depending on the variables passed in. I've tried some of the implementations from How to add a progress bar to a shell script? but have not been able to get them to work.

Is there are way within Bash to hide the response body of a curl GET request whilst still showing a progress bar? --progress-bar Shows a minified version of the default bar however still outputs