# progress **Repository Path**: hlooc/progress ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: progress - **Description**: No description available - **Primary Language**: Unknown - **License**: GPL-3.0 - **Default Branch**: master - **Homepage**: None - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 0 - **Forks**: 0 - **Created**: 2020-02-27 - **Last Updated**: 2020-12-16 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: Uncategorized **Tags**: None ## README progress - Coreutils Progress Viewer [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/Xfennec/progress.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/Xfennec/progress) ===================== What is it? ----------- This tool can be described as a **Tiny**, Dirty, Linux-and-OSX-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 also show **estimated time** and **throughput**, and provides a "top-like" mode (monitoring). ![progress screenshot with cp and mv](https://raw.github.com/Xfennec/progress/master/capture.png) _(After many requests: the colors in the shell come from [powerline-shell](https://github.com/milkbikis/powerline-shell). Try it, it's cool.)_ Formerly known as cv (Coreutils Viewer). How do you build it? -------------------- make && make install It depends on library ncurses, you may have to install corresponding packages (may be something like 'libncurses5-dev' or 'ncurses-devel'). How do you run it? ------------------ Just launch the binary, `progress`. What can I do with it? ---------------------- A few examples. You can: * monitor all current and upcoming instances of coreutils commands in a simple window: watch progress -q * see how your download is progressing: watch progress -wc firefox * look at your Web server activity: progress -c httpd * launch and monitor any heavy command using `$!`: cp bigfile newfile & progress -mp $! and much more. How does it work? ----------------- It simply scans `/proc` for interesting commands, and then looks at directories `fd` and `fdinfo` to find opened files and seek positions, and reports status for the largest file. It's very light, and compatible with virtually any command.