progress - Coreutils Progress Viewer
progress [ -qdwmM ] [ -W secs ] [
-c command ] [ -a command ] [ -p
pid ]
progress -v | --version
progress -h | --help
This manual page briefly documents the progress
command.
This tool can be described as a Tiny, Dirty, C command that looks
for coreutils basic commands (cp, mv, dd, tar, gzip/gunzip, cat, etc.)
currently running on your system and displays the percentage of copied
data.
It can now also estimate throughput (using flag -w).
- -q (--quiet)
- hides all messages
- -d (--debug)
- shows all warning/error messages
- -w (--wait)
- estimate I/O throughput and estimated remaining time (slower display)
- -W (--wait-delay
secs)
- wait 'secs' seconds for I/O estimation (implies -w)
- -m (--monitor)
- loop while monitored processes are still running
- -M
(--monitor-continuously)
- like monitor but never stop (similar to watch progress)
- -c (--command cmd)
- monitor only this command name (ex: firefox). This option can be used
multiple times on the command line.
- -a (--additional-command
cmd)
- add this command to the default list. This option can be used multiple
times on the command line.
- -p (--pid id)
- monitor only this numeric process ID (ex: `pidof firefox`). This option
can be used multiple times on the command line.
- -i (--ignore-file
file)
- do not report a process for 'file'. If the file does not exist yet, you
must give a full and clean absolute path. This option can be used multiple
times on the command line.
- -o (--open-mode
{r|w})
- report only files opened for read or write by the process. This option is
useful when you want to monitor only output files (or input ones) of a
process.
- -v (--version)
- show program version and exit
- -h (--help)
- display help message and exit
It's possible to give permanent options using PROGRESS_ARGS
environment variable. See example below. Command line arguments take
precedence over environment.
Continuously monitor all current and upcoming instances of
coreutils commands
See how your download is progressing
watch progress -wc firefox
Look at your Web server activity
Launch and monitor any heavy command using $!
cp bigfile newfile & progress -mp $!
Use environment variable to set permanent (multiple) arguments
export PROGRESS_ARGS='-M --ignore-file
~/.xsession-errors'
Please report bugs at:
http://github.com/Xfennec/progress/issues
http://github.com/Xfennec/progress
This manual page was written by Thomas Zimmermann
<bugs@vdm-design.de>, for the openSUSE project (and may be used by
others).