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shellscriptingpopupprogress-bar
Girish K
Girish K

Reputation: 778

how can i show pop up with the help of shell scripting?

In order to track progress of particular process. I want to show progress bar with percentage of completion of process. Please advise, is it possible to use pop-up to show progress bar like windows or pop-up with specific message.

Please advise.

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 581

Answers (1)

Dummy00001
Dummy00001

Reputation: 17420

I know two simple tools for the purpose:

  1. The tool zenity allows to create GUI progress bar from shell script, e.g. zenity --progress --auto-close. The zenity is often preinstalled on many Linux systems. The tool starts, and shows the GUI progress bar, while on stdin it expects percentage of completion. E.g.:

    seq 0 20 100 | while read X; do sleep 1; echo $X; done |
   zenity --progress --auto-close

  2. The pv tool ("Pipe Viewer") can be used as a replacement for the cat but with the perk that it shows a progress bar in text mode indicating the amount/speed of data passing through the pv. One has to install it, as normally it is not preinstalled. For example, to add progress bar to decompression of large archive:

    pv large.tar.bz2 | tar -xjf -

Upvotes: 1

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