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33.Dd April 3, 2004
34.Dt PROGRESS 1
35.Os
36.Sh NAME
37.Nm progress
38.Nd feed input to a command, displaying a progress bar
39.Sh SYNOPSIS
40.Nm
41.Op Fl z
42.Op Fl f Ar file
43.Op Fl l Ar length
44.Op Fl p Ar prefix
45.Ar cmd
46.Op Ar args ...
47.Sh DESCRIPTION
48The
49.Nm
50utility opens a pipe to
51.Ar cmd
52and feeds an input stream into it, while displaying a progress bar to
53standard output.
54If no filename is specified,
55.Nm
56reads from standard input.
57Where feasible,
58.Nm
59.Xr fstat 2 Ns s
60the input to determine the length, so a time estimate can be calculated.
61.Pp
62If no length is specified or determined,
63.Nm
64simply displays a count of the data and the data rate.
65.Pp
66The options are as follows:
67.Bl -tag -width XlXlengthXX
68.It Fl f Ar file
69Read from the specified
70.Ar file
71instead of standard input.
72.It Fl l Ar length
73Use the specified length for the time estimate, rather than attempting to
74.Xr fstat 2
75the input.
76An optional suffix (per
77.Xr strsuftoll 3 )
78may be given.
79.It Fl p Ar prefix
80Print the given
81.Dq prefix
82text before (left of) the progress bar.
83.It Fl z
84Filter the input through
85.Xr gunzip 1 .
86If
87.Fl f
88is specified, calculate the length using
89.Ic gzip -l .
90.El
91.Sh EXIT STATUS
92.Nm
93exits 0 on success.
94.Sh EXAMPLES
95The command
96.Dl progress -zf file.tar.gz tar xf -
97will extract the
98.Pa file.tar.gz
99displaying the progress bar as time passes:
100.Bd -literal
101  0% |                                 |     0       0.00 KB/s    --:-- ETA
102 40% |**********                       |   273 KB  271.95 KB/s    00:01 ETA
103 81% |*************************        |   553 KB  274.61 KB/s    00:00 ETA
104100% |*********************************|   680 KB  264.59 KB/s    00:00 ETA
105.Ed
106.Pp
107If it is preferred to monitor the progress of the decompression
108process (unlikely), then
109.Dl progress -f file.tar.gz tar zxf -
110could be used.
111.Pp
112The command
113.Dl dd if=/dev/rwd0d ibs=64k | \e
114.Dl progress -l 120g dd of=/dev/rwd1d obs=64k
115will copy the 120 GB disk
116.Sy wd0
117.Pa ( /dev/rwd0d )
118to
119.Sy wd1
120.Pa ( /dev/rwd1d ) ,
121displaying a progress bar during the operation.
122.Sh SEE ALSO
123.Xr ftp 1 ,
124.Xr strsuftoll 3
125.Sh HISTORY
126.Nm
127first appeared in
128.Nx 1.6.1 .
129The dynamic progress bar display code is part of
130.Xr ftp 1 .
131.Sh AUTHORS
132.Nm
133was written by
134.An John Hawkinson
135.Aq jhawk@NetBSD.org .
136.Xr ftp 1 Ns 's
137dynamic progress bar was written by Luke Mewburn.
138.Sh BUGS
139Since the progress bar is displayed asynchronously, it may be
140difficult to read some error messages, both those produced by the
141pipeline, as well as those produced by
142.Nm
143itself.
144