June 6, 2007 PROGRESS 1

### NAME

progress - feed input to a command, displaying a progress bar

### SYNOPSIS

progress [-ez] [-b buffersize] [-f file] [-l length] [-p prefix] cmd [args ...]

### DESCRIPTION

The progress utility opens a pipe to cmd and feeds an input stream into it, while displaying a progress bar to standard output. If no filename is specified, progress reads from standard input. Where feasible, progress fstat(2)s the input to determine the length, so a time estimate can be calculated.

If no length is specified or determined, progress simply displays a count of the data and the data rate.

The options are as follows:

-b buffersize
  Read in buffers of the specified size (default 64k). An optional suffix (per strsuftoll(3)) may be given.

-e
  Display progress to standard error instead of standard output.

-f file
  Read from the specified file instead of standard input.

-l length
  Use the specified length for the time estimate, rather than attempting to fstat(2) the input. An optional suffix (per strsuftoll(3)) may be given.

-p prefix
  Print the given ``prefix'' text before (left of) the progress bar.

-z
  Filter the input through gunzip(1). If -f is specified, calculate the length using gzip -l.

### EXIT STATUS

progress exits 0 on success.

### EXAMPLES

The command
```progress``-zf` `file.tar.gz` `tar` `xf``-`
will extract the ```file.tar.gz` displaying the progress bar as time passes: `

      0% |                               |     0        0.00 KiB/s    --:-- ETA
     40% |********                       |   273 KiB  271.95 KiB/s    00:01 ETA
     81% |***********************        |   553 KiB  274.61 KiB/s    00:00 ETA
    100% |*******************************|   680 KiB  264.59 KiB/s    00:00 ETA

`

If it is preferred to monitor the progress of the decompression process (unlikely), then
```progress``-f` `file.tar.gz` `tar` `zxf``-`
could be used.

The command
```dd` `if=/dev/rwd0d` `ibs=64k``|``\`
```progress``-l` `120g` `dd` `of=/dev/rwd1d` `obs=64k`
will copy the 120 GiB disk wd0 ``(`/dev/rwd0d`) to wd1 ``(`/dev/rwd1d`), displaying a progress bar during the operation.

### SEE ALSO

ftp(1), strsuftoll(3)

### HISTORY

progress first appeared in NetBSD1.6.1. The dynamic progress bar display code is part of ftp(1).

### AUTHORS

progress was written by John Hawkinson
<jhawk@NetBSD.org>. ftp(1)'s dynamic progress bar was written by Luke Mewburn.

### BUGS

Since the progress bar is displayed asynchronously, it may be difficult to read some error messages, both those produced by the pipeline, as well as those produced by progress itself.