progress - to monitor progress of commands

robertkwild · 09-25-2017, 08:05 AM

will something like this work -

find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \; | pv | >> /md5sum/source.txt

pan64 · 09-25-2017, 08:11 AM

That is syntactically incorrect.
Did you try that at all?

robertkwild · 09-25-2017, 10:40 AM

yeah and it worked but it didnt show the ETA and progress

so im guessing as you said the syntax is wrong as if it was right it would show me the ETA and progress ie percent done

pan64 · 09-26-2017, 12:45 AM

What I tried to explain in post #15: there is no ETA when you work with find. You cannot estimate anything, because find has no any idea about what will be found at all, it cannot guess. If you want to estimate you need to measure first, but that will definitely slow down the execution.
If you would like to use pv you need to use -s <SIZE> to be able to show real progress, but I have no idea if that size is known at all (or just at the end of the find)

robertkwild · 09-27-2017, 04:30 AM

sorry for the late reply just been busy at work

thanks pan, how would i use the find and pv command together

i know the size of the directory im running the find command in by doing a "du -s /source_dir/"

!!! · 10-04-2017, 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

something like this:

Code:

find . -type f -exec <shell_script> {} \; 

# shell script:

#!/bin/bash
echo -n .
md5sum $1 >> /md5sum/source.txt

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@pan64/anyone: will this work? (maybe to avoid making a script)