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ender · 11-08-2004, 01:15 PM

You should be able to do it in bash. Although determining the percentage to fill might be a little trickier than I would like it to be. The overall concept is the same though. I'm sure you knew this, but be sure to do 'echo -e' to enable interpretation of escape sequences. I think this may be dependent upon which shell you use. However I do know that /bin/echo is pretty much a constant.

The way you can do your percentages if you want to is to is pipe any calculation you want into bc and read the answer. For example, finding 2+2 : 'echo "2+2" | bc" will result in 4 on stdout.

The following should work for just a percentage though:

Code:

#!/bin/bash

echo "Start"

for i in 1 2 3 4
do
  percentage=`echo "scale=2; $i/4 * 100" | bc -l`
  echo -en "\r$percentage %"
  sleep 1
done

echo -e "\nDone!"

This should get you started. Oh, the -n option for echo suppresses the newline from being printed after the echo 'echos' something. Good Luck!

-Ted

11-08-2004, 01:15 PM	#5 (permalink)
ender Code Monkey Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Evansville, IN Posts: 75	You should be able to do it in bash. Although determining the percentage to fill might be a little trickier than I would like it to be. The overall concept is the same though. I'm sure you knew this, but be sure to do 'echo -e' to enable interpretation of escape sequences. I think this may be dependent upon which shell you use. However I do know that /bin/echo is pretty much a constant. The way you can do your percentages if you want to is to is pipe any calculation you want into bc and read the answer. For example, finding 2+2 : 'echo "2+2" \| bc" will result in 4 on stdout. The following should work for just a percentage though: Code: #!/bin/bash echo "Start" for i in 1 2 3 4 do percentage=`echo "scale=2; $i/4 * 100" \| bc -l` echo -en "\r$percentage %" sleep 1 done echo -e "\nDone!" This should get you started. Oh, the -n option for echo suppresses the newline from being printed after the echo 'echos' something. Good Luck! -Ted __________________ while(1) fork();