shell-progressbar

A progressbar for shell scripts inspired by APT

Table of contents

• Installation
• Usage
  • Example
• Customization

For a POSIX compliant version see instructions in branch POSIX

Installation:

Put this anywhere in your script by using cURL

. <(curl -sLo- "https://git.io/progressbar")

or by using wget

. <(wget -qO- "https://git.io/progressbar")

Usage:

Make a call to

bar::start

before any progress should be reported. This will setup the status line by shrinking the terminal scroll area by one row. Then determine the total steps to be reported - either you're using this in a loop or do manual reporting in your script. What ever way suits your needs, make a call to

bar::status_changed <steps done> <total steps>

whenever progress is made. This function will then determine if the status line should be updated.

Finally make a call to

bar::stop

when you're done and this function will restore the terminal size.

Example

#!/usr/bin/env bash

. <(curl -sLo- "https://git.io/progressbar")

bar::start

StuffToDo=("Stuff1" "Stuff2" "Stuff3")

TotalSteps=${#StuffToDo[@]}

for Stuff in ${StuffToDo[@]}; do
  # Do stuff
  echo "Invoking ${Stuff} to do some stuffs..."
  StepsDone=$((${StepsDone:-0}+1))
  bar::status_changed $StepsDone $TotalSteps
  sleep 1
done

bar::stop

Customization

If you want to customize your progress string then change the following variables, shown below with defaults

LEFT_BRACKET=${LEFT_BRACKET:-"["}
RIGHT_BRACKET=${RIGHT_BRACKET:-"]"}
FILL=${FILL:-"#"}
REMAIN=${REMAIN:-"."}

You can change foreground and background color by setting these variables

foreground="$(tput setaf 0)" # black
background="$(tput setab 2)" # green

you can also tweak how often reporting should be done (in case of great number of steps and quick progressing) by setting reporting_steps to a value bigger than 1