MPB(1) General Commands Manual MPB(1)
NAME
mpb - more progress bar
SYNOPSIS
mpb [-o] [-v] [-s] [-wWIDTH] [TOTAL]
DESCRIPTION
Show progress of lines read from stdin in stderr.
OPTIONS
-o output stdin to stdout
-v show current line
-s show activity spinner
-wWIDTH
set width of progress bar (default = 32)
TOTAL number of lines expected to be read until completion of task
if TOTAL is not given or it is zero, the progress bar will not
be shown
EXAMPLES
Use seq(1) to test drive mpb:
$ n=5000; seq $n | mpb -vsw50 $n
Show path of file currently being extracted by tar(1) (without progress
bar):
$ tar vxf foo.tgz | mpb -v
Pre-compute the number of files in archive to add extraction progress
bar:
$ f=foo.tgz; n=$(tar tf $f | wc -l); tar vxf $f | mpb -v $n
2020-04-02 MPB(1)