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Thursday, June 1, 2017

Progress – A Tiny Tool to Monitor Progress for (cp, mv, dd, tar, etc.) Commands in Linux

Progress, formerly known as Coreutils Viewer, is a light C command that searches for coreutils basic commands such as cpmvtarddgzip/gunzipcatgrep etc currently being executed on the system and shows the percentage of data copied, it only runs on Linux and Mac OS X operating systems.
Additionally, it also displays important aspects such as estimated time and throughput, and offers users a “top-like” mode.

It utterly scans the /proc filesystem for fascinating commands, and then searches the fd and fdinfodirectories to find opened files, seeks positions, and reports status for the extensive files. Importantly, it is a very light tool, and compatible with practically any command.

How to Install Progress Viewer in Linux

Progress requires the ncurses library in order to work, therefore install libncurses before proceeding to install it, by running the appropriate command below:


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