Re: Shell scripting question

From: Trog Woolley (trog_at_email.fake)
Date: 11/07/03 

Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 08:17:25 +0000 (UTC)

While stranded on the hard shoulder of the information super highway snap12@ibm.com typed:
> Does anyone know how to display a moving character or progress bar in a
> shell script, I have a large shell script which can take some time to run
> and I was to display some activity for the user to see while the script is
> running so they know that the script is doing somthing.

The low tech way is to display these four characters in sequence
| / - \
inside the loop that is taking the most time; position the cursor and
display the next in the sequence. I do have some ksh code somewhere
that does this. If I can find it, I'll post it later. 

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Trog Woolley | trog at trogwoolley dot com
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