progress(1) - Linux man page

Name

progress - feed input to a command, displaying a progress bar

Synopsis

progress [-z] [-f file] [-l length] [-p prefix] cmd [args ...]

Description

The progress utility opens a pipe to cmd and feeds an input stream into it, while displaying a progress bar to standard output. If no filename is specified, progress reads from standard input. Where feasible, progress fstat(2)s the input to determine the length, so a time estimate can be calculated.

If no length is specified or determined, progress simply displays a count of the data and the data rate.

The options are as follows: 

      -f file'             Read from the specified file instead of standardinput.
-l length' Use the specified length for the time estimate, rather than attempting to fstat(2) the input. An optional suffix (per strsuftoll(3)) may be given.

-p prefix' Print the given ''prefix'' text before (left of) the progress bar.

-z' Filter the input through gunzip(1). If -f is specified, calculate the length using gzip -l.

Exit Status

progress exits 0 on success.

Examples

The command

progress -zf file.tar.gz tar xf -

will extract the file.tar.gz displaying the progress bar as time passes: 

  0% |                                 |     0       0.00 KB/s    --:-- ETA
 40% |**********                       |   273 KB  271.95 KB/s    00:01 ETA
 81% |*************************        |   553 KB  274.61 KB/s    00:00 ETA
100% |*********************************|   680 KB  264.59 KB/s    00:00 ETA
If it is preferred to monitor the progress of the decompression process (unlikely), then
progress -f file.tar.gz tar zxf -

could be used.

The command

dd if=/dev/rwd0d ibs=64k | \
progress -l 120g dd of=/dev/rwd1d obs=64k

will copy the 120 GB disk wd0 (/dev/rwd0d) to wd1 (/dev/rwd1d), displaying a progress bar during the operation.

See Also

ftp(1), strsuftoll(3)

History

progress first appeared in NetBSD 1.6.1. The dynamic progress bar display code is part of ftp(1).

Authors

progress was written by John Hawkinson <jhawk@NetBSD.org>. ftp(1)'s dynamic progress bar was written by Luke Mewburn.

Bugs

Since the progress bar is displayed asynchronously, it may be difficult to read some error messages, both those produced by the pipeline, as well as those produced by progress itself.

BSD April 3, 2004 BSD