Dear Experts,

As a inchange of server tasks in my company, I running administrative commands and scripts.

During doing all these tasks, inbetween I wanted to perform other importent tasks but I'm not sure that the commands and scripts which used to run will take how much time to complete.
I want that when I perform any task by running command(s) or scripts, a timer or progress should display in the screen (i.e. in % or remaining time format). This will help me to figure out that how long the running command or script will take time which will help me to perform other tasks inbetween. I couldn't figure out the solution.

pls help me out to resolve the problem.

You could email yourself when the job is done if you are running the job from the command line, example below.

ping -c 5 google.com && echo "The job is done" | mail -s "Job Status" me@mydomain.dom &

in addition, you may insert something like 'echo "step 5 finished"' between some parts of your scripts,
and if they do some processing on files - you can pipe files through programs like 'bar' or 'pv'.
http://www.theiling.de/projects/bar.html
http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml