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# 1  
Old 10-02-2008
Progress indicator script
Can anybody suggest you a good script to show progress of a process.

I figured it out some thing like this. But cursor goes to the end of the line and after every loop it goes to the next line.

Code:
while true ; do
for i in \| \/ \- \\ \| \/ \- \\
do
echo "\b\b$i \c"
sleep 1
done
done

# 2  
Old 10-02-2008
The carriage return character (\r, ASCII 13) returns the cursor to beginning of line without advancing to the next line.

If you have printf that might be slightly less unwieldy than echo.
# 3  
Old 10-02-2008
Try echo -n.

Regards
# 4  
Old 10-03-2008
One more way of doing this..

Code:
#!/bin/sh

percent=0
(
while test $percent != 101
do
echo $percent
echo "XXX"
echo "This is how the gauge appears"
echo "XXX"
echo "See how the message changes"
echo "XXX"
percent=`expr $percent + 1`
sleep 1
done
) |
dialog --title "Main Window!" --gauge "This is how a gauge appears on the command line" 10 60 0

# 5  
Old 10-03-2008
It seems This is for Linux. My machine is UX
# 6  
Old 10-03-2008
You can get dialog for HP-UX too. http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Shells/dialog-1.1/

(Funny they should use Debian as their upstream, though. According to the corresponding Debian packages, the original upstream is ftp://invisible-island.net/dialog/. I found a home page at http://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.html.)
# 7  
Old 10-03-2008
Thank you era!! let me try
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