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33.Dd January 21, 2003
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.Ar cmd
45.Op Ar args ...
46.Sh DESCRIPTION
47The
48.Nm
49utility opens a pipe to
50.Ar cmd
51and feeds an input stream into it, while displaying a progress bar to
52standard output.
53If no filename is specified,
54.Nm
55reads from standard input.
56Where feasible,
57.Nm
58.Xr fstat 2 Ns s
59the input to determine the length, so a time estimate can be calculated.
60.Pp
61If no length is specified or determined,
62.Nm
63simply displays a count of the data and the data rate.
64.Pp
65The options are as follows:
66.Bl -tag -width XlXlengthXX
67.It Fl f Ar file
68Read from the specified
69.Ar file
70instead of standard input.
71.It Fl l Ar length
72Use the specified length for the time estimate, rather than attempting to
73.Xr fstat 2
74the input.
75.It Fl z
76Filter the input through
77.Xr gzip 1 .
78If
79.Fl f
80is specified, calculate the length using
81.Ic gzip -l .
82.El
83.Sh EXIT STATUS
84.Nm
85exits 0 on success.
86.\" .Sh ENVIRONMENT
87.\" .Sh FILES
88.Sh EXAMPLES
89The command
90.Ic progress -zf file.tar.gz tar xf -
91will extract the
92.Pa file.tar.gz
93displaying the progress bar as time passes:
94.Bd -literal
95  0% |                                 |     0       0.00 KB/s    --:-- ETA
96 40% |**********                       |   273 KB  271.95 KB/s    00:01 ETA
97 81% |*************************        |   553 KB  274.61 KB/s    00:00 ETA
98100% |*********************************|   680 KB  264.59 KB/s    00:00 ETA
99.Ed
100.Pp
101If it is preferred to monitor the progress of the decompression
102process (unlikely), then
103.Ic progress -f file.tar.gz tar zxf -
104could be used.
105.\".Sh DIAGNOSTICS
106.Sh SEE ALSO
107.Xr ftp 1
108.\" .Sh STANDARDS
109.Sh HISTORY
110.Nm
111first appeared in
112.Nx 1.6.1 .
113The dynamic progress bar display code is part of
114.Xr ftp 1 .
115.Sh AUTHORS
116.Nm
117was written by
118.An John Hawkinson Aq jhawk@NetBSD.ORG .
119.Xr ftp 1 Ns 's
120dynamic progress bar was written by Luke Mewburn.
121.Sh BUGS
122Since the progress bar is displayed asynchronously, it may be
123difficult to read some error messages, both those produced by the
124pipeline, as well as those produced by
125.Nm
126itself.
127.\" .Sh SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
128