The sleep commands simulate work you script is performing. You will probably want to calculate the percentage complete in your script rather than have arbitrary hard-coded echo statements.
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Hi all,
I want to print # like that in a progress bar..
For e.g We can notice that during installation ... but,how to do that?
Thnx,
sakthi. (4 Replies)
Hi friends,
how can I show a progress bar for any running process in the shell script.
For example when I am copying or compressing a file.
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hi all,
in shell script (ksh), how do i write a progress bar ?? i have a script which searches files and while its searching i am currently printing out "." and if it finds what its searching for the script prints out the name of the file e.g
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firstFile.txt... (2 Replies)
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I need to create a progress bar in C, but i have no idea on how to do it.
i want it to output something like this:
Progress: 58%
But i can't get it to work. Could you please post an example progress bar written in ANSI C?
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I'm trying to use this code to get a progress bar for cp:
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usage: stat
awk: division by zero
input record number 1, file
source line number 4
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Dear All,
I need suggestions, I have below simple text based progress-bar script which will gradually increase the %.
#!/bin/ksh
i=50
echo "0--------20--------40-------60--------80-------100%"
while
do
echo -n "#"
sleep 1
i=`expr $i - 1`
done
echo
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Im in the process of writing a shell script for enabling an IT operations to run archiving.We use netbackup. The script is complete, though there is one bit that i need help on. Im trying to have a progess bar for the procedure.I have gone through the man page of the command in... (5 Replies)
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i made script to transfer data through the FTP but i need to add something if you can help me i want in the output message like progress bar
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
sleepenh
SLEEPENH(1) General Commands Manual SLEEPENH(1)NAME
sleepenh - an enhanced sleep program.
SYNOPSIS
sleepenh [initial-time] sleep-time
DESCRIPTION
sleepenh is a program that can be used when there is a need to execute some functions periodically in a shell script. It was not designed
to be accurate for a single sleep, but to be accurate in a sequence of consecutive sleeps.
After a successful execution, it returns to stdout the timestamp it finished running, that can be used as initial-time to a successive exe-
cution of sleepenh.
OPTIONS
There are no command line options. Run it without any option to get a brief help and version.
ARGUMENTS
sleep-time is a real number in seconds, with microseconds resolution (1 minute, 20 seconds and 123456 microseconds would be 80.123456).
initial-time is a real number in seconds, with microseconds resolution. This number is system dependent. In GNU/Linux systems, it is the
number of seconds since midnight 1970-01-01 GMT. Do not try to get a good value of initial-time. Use the value supplied by a previous exe-
cution of sleepenh.
If you don't specify initial-time, it is assumed the current-time.
EXIT STATUS
An exit status greater or equal to 10 means failure. Known exit status:
0 Success.
1 Success. There was no need to sleep. (means that initial-time + sleep-time was greater than current-time).
10 Failure. Missing command line arguments.
11 Failure. Did not receive SIGALRM.
12 Failure. Argument is not a number.
13 Failure. System error, could not get current time.
USAGE EXAMPLE
Suppose you need to send the char 'A' to the serial port ttyS0 every 4 seconds. This will do that:
#!/bin/sh
TIMESTAMP=`sleepenh 0`
while true; do
# send the byte to ttyS0
echo -n "A" > /dev/ttyS0;
# just print a nice message on screen
echo -n "I sent 'A' to ttyS0, time now is ";
sleepenh 0;
# wait the required time
TIMESTAMP=`sleepenh $TIMESTAMP 4.0`;
done
HINT
This program can be used to get the current time. Just execute:
sleepenh 0
BUGS
It is not accurate for a single sleep. Short sleep-times will also not be accurate.
SEE ALSO date(1), sleep(1).
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Pedro Zorzenon Neto.
2008/04/20 SLEEPENH(1)