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rayzorblayde

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Registered: 2004-01-04

Posts: 67

req: Command Line Progress Bar

requesting:

located here: http://clpbar.sourceforge.net/

It's a VERY small program, (so small that once it's compiled is only a single file ... i think ) but it makes the dd process soo much better, and is good for many other things as well.  I just built it from source and have it running on a temporary box i have for making images.

what confuses me is that pacman uses something similar to this, but i couldn't figure out if it's built in, or if it uses an external program that i couldn't find.

one of these days i'll take the time to learn how to create a package  :?  if no one takes this one on, I may get around in the next month or so to take it on as my first try at it

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dp

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From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

Posts: 3,378

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Re: req: Command Line Progress Bar

hmm ...

to measure things in console, i use pipemeter

http://www.archlinux.org/packages.php?id=3294

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dadexter

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From: Dorval, QC, Canada

Registered: 2004-09-07

Posts: 274

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Re: req: Command Line Progress Bar

pkgname=bar
pkgver=1.10.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Bar is a simple tool to copy a stream of data and print a display for the user on stderr."
url="http://clpbar.sourceforge.net/ "
license="GPL"
source=(http://heanet.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/clpbar/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=(5f23956f2cf81e33633d1c9ee0d92249)

build() {
  cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
  make || return 1
  make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
}

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rayzorblayde

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Registered: 2004-01-04

Posts: 67

Re: req: Command Line Progress Bar

hmm ...

to measure things in console, i use pipemeter

http://www.archlinux.org/packages.php?id=3294

[mg]http://spamaps.org/images/pmprogress.png[/img]

thanks, i didn't know about that one.  the only problem i have with it is that on the monitor i'm using it doesn't correctly size the line, so i get a new line on each refresh instead of overwriting the current line like it should.  any way to tell it my screen size?  also, i wish it gave an estimated time left along with the elapsed time.  but it doesn't crash out like the new version of bar is doing for me.

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