tar command with progress bar

netpumber · 11-05-2009, 05:10 AM

Halo!!

I have this comand in a bash script

Code:

!#/bin/sh
cd /home/n3t
tar -czf /media/disk/BACKUP/home/Pictures/$BACKUPDATE.tar.gz ./Pictures

How can i create a progress bar for this action ?

Any ideas ?
I have download the clpbar but i dont know how to use it exactly..

Thanks..!

bradvan · 11-05-2009, 05:54 AM

I don't believe it is possible. In order to display a progress bar, tar would have to know the total size of the files being archived. It doesn't. It processes the files one at a time. You could make it verbose and then it would tell you as it is adding each file to the archive.