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How to show make visible a tftp transfer progress in a script

I have a client app that launch in async mode a bash script that send a file to a TFTP server. The issue is that I don't know how to show user the progress of this transfer, worst of all this ...
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Display progress for rsync with `--info=progress2` and `--files-from`

So I've been looking around for a while now and saw that rsync offers the insanely useful option --info=progress2 (from threads like this), which prints the overall update progress quite nicely. --no-...
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How can I get the _real_ progress of dd, ignoring fast/staging buffers? [duplicate]

I'm using the dd command to write to a USB stick. My command is pretty straightforward: dd if=myimage.iso of=/dev/sdd bs=1M status=progress and indeed, I seem to be getting the progress reported: ...
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How to read a command's output while it is running?

If a command were to output, say, a progress bar that updates live, until it stops, and I wanted to constantly obtain the percentage of said progress bar and display it in a GUI such as zenity, how ...
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Pipeline progress report

Suppose I'm running a pipeline like this: cat input.txt | foo | bar | baz | last_step > result.txt Is there a way to make the shell print each step to stderr as it is executed? I know that if the ...
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estimating cp -r time

For a /data type folder that has gigabytes and thousands of files and sub folders, I will often do tar -cf data.tar data {it was a 102gb tar file} rsync -P data.tar /some_new_location cd ...
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How to wrap a process with an activity indicator?

I have a process which I'm running in a terminal session. The process prints nothing (or perhaps it prints a lot of junk which I redirect somewhere), and takes quite a while, e.g. a couple of minutes. ...
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Is there any handy way to follow multiple piped commands' status output

Let's say I have serverA with a block device, the contents of which I want to move to serverB's block device via the computer I am working on as a relay. This is very handy with pipes, buffers, dd and ...
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How to add progress status of a downloading file in bash script

I want to show (regularly update) my download/upload progress of a file on my telegram bot. I'm using aria2 for downloading and rclone for uploading. And all I'm using is bash/shell script. aria2c $...
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Progress bar "dialog" to show progress based on command execution from function [duplicate]

How to make "dialog" progress bar increasing the counter, when each echo command is executed from function? I have this code below as example, but I'm having problem of catching when command ...
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Hour glass/Progress while extracting large file from remote host in shell

I have a shell script, which is using unzip to get a very huge file from a remote directory to local directory within the shell. This operations taking pretty long time, roughly from 20-30 min. #!/bin/...
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Rsync progress waits a long time after finish

When I am running rsync to copy big file (within directory on local hard drive) + rsync -P bigfile1.img bigfile2.img bigfile1.img 6,512,705,536 100% 413.76MB/s 0:00:15 (xfr#1, to-chk=0/1) it ...
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How to show progress towards a directory reaching a certain size

I have a server to which I am copying large amounts of data using rsync and I would like to monitor progress on the server, not the client. I know, for a given source directory on the client how much ...
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Show progress of a for loop after it was started

I started a for loop in an interactive bash session. For this question we can assume the loop was something like for i in dir/*; do program "$i" done > log The command takes a lot longer than ...
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A tool for monitoring progress and ETA of an arbitrary process

I'm looking for a tool that takes two arguments: a command to execute, and a target value The tool should then run the command continuously, look for a number in the output of the command, and ...
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