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)