progressbar

A simple bash progress bar to be used in bash scripts This implements a couple features that I have not seens anywhere else (wich is why I made it):

• This bar remains on the top right hand corner of your shell, not interfering with your regular shell output with echo
• It displays 2 decimal places for the percentage of completion, which is handy for longer scripts

how to use

Add "progress" to your PATH. in your script, pass the following

progress $k $total

with $k your local iterative variable and $total the target number of iterations of the script

this script will display a bar on the top right corner of your shell, with the remaning percentage and a fancy progress bar

Example

Script implementing the bar

#!/bin/bash
_start=1
_end=100

for number in $(seq ${_start} ${_end})
do
    sleep 0.1
    echo "testing with "
    progress ${number} ${_end}
done

Output

(ins)spok:Work/progressbar$ ./test.sh                                Progress : [###-------] 36.00%

Sources

• http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/clockt.html
• https://github.com/fearside/ProgressBar/