progress (1) Linux Manual Page
NAME
progress – Coreutils Progress Viewer
SYNOPSIS
progress [ -qdwmM ] [ -W secs ] [ -c command ] [ -p pid ]
progress -v | –version
progress -h | –help
DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the progress command.
This tool can be described as a Tiny, Dirty, Linux-Only 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 ).
OPTIONS
-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.
-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
ENVIRONMENT
It’s possible to give permanent options using PROGRESS_ARGS environment variable. See example below. Command line arguments take precedence over environment.
EXAMPLES
Continuously monitor all current and upcoming instances of coreutils commands
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watch progress -q
See how your download is progressing
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watch progress -wc firefox
Look at your Web server activity
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progress -c httpd
Launch and monitor any heavy command using $!
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cp bigfile newfile & progress -mp $!
Use environment variable to set permanent (multiple) arguments
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export PROGRESS_ARGS=’-M –ignore-file ~/.xsession-errors’
BUGS
Please report bugs at: http://github.com/Xfennec/progress/issues
HOMEPAGE
http://github.com/Xfennec/progress
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Zimmermann <bugs [at] vdm-design.de>, for the openSUSE project (and may be used by others).