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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bash Scripting: Adding runtime in a progress bar Post 303013624 by Don Cragun on Saturday 24th of February 2018 02:30:28 PM
Old 02-24-2018
Quote:
Originally Posted by kristinu
The runtime will be of the format `hh:mm:ss`

Code:
runtm: 05:34:21

I would like things to look as follows

Code:
[*********************                     ]   55%   05:34:21

I have tried

Code:
printf "%4d%10s" $((100 * ++j / totfcn)), $runtm

and

Code:
printf "%4d%%" $((100 * ++j / totfcn))
printf "%10s" $runtm

---------- Post updated at 06:57 AM ---------- Previous update was at 05:16 AM ----------

There was a problem with one of the variables, it works ok now. So the commands are
working as they should.
You can combine the two working printf statements that are working into a single printf statement. The way you tried to do it didn't work because:
  • changing %% to %10s in the format statement caused it to stop printing a percent sign after the percentage completed, and
  • adding a comma after the percentage calculation either served as a no-op or caused a syntax error while trying to print a non-numeric string value with a %d format specifier (depending on which implementation of printf you invoked in your script).
To get the same output as that produced by:
Code:
printf "%4d%%" $((100 * ++j / totfcn))
printf "%10s" $runtm

with a single printf statement, use:
Code:
printf "%4d%%%10s" $((100 * ++j / totfcn)) $runtm

Note that this concatenates the two format strings into a single format string without otherwise changing any of the characters in either of the original format strings, and adding operands to be printed by each of the printfs being combined as operands in the same sequences in the combined printf command.
 

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