dialog bash gauge wget question...

DjRakso · 12-19-2007, 02:51 PM

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone knows how to take make a dialog gauge that lets the user to use the wget command to run in the background.
When running in the background,it is dumping to a output which the gauge takes in when it notices how far the downloading percent is completed then exits the loop.
I was thinking for the output to take in the wget command and using various cuts and greps to get the percentage but dont know how to apply that to the dialog --guages?
thx, for reading my question.

unSpawn · 12-19-2007, 03:57 PM

Here's a stupid example of making --gauge react on input. Replace the 'echo' with your grepping:

Code:

echo -e "10\n20\n30\n40\n50\n60\n70\n80\n90\n95\n99\n100\n" \
| while read i; do echo $i; sleep 1s; done | /usr/bin/gdialog \
--backtitle "rm -rf /" --title "rm -rf /" --gauge "rm -rf /" 8 60 0

Caveats: --gauge won't quit itself. Maybe you want to run this from one function and check/pkill from another.