how to create progress bar when running command that take time

Asked Feb 27 '18 at 08:13

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for example ( this take 10 min )

cat GTTfiles* > GTTcentos7.tar.gz

so during that CLI is working how to create some progress that show process is running?

example of output , ( only example , we will happy to get other ideas )

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asked Feb 27 '18 at 08:13

yael

Note that pv, which is mentioned in the linked duplicate and the answers to your previous question, can do this accurately if it’s told about the total size of the files to copy. – Stephen Kitt Feb 27 '18 at 08:22
can you show me please the syntax with pv? – yael Feb 27 '18 at 08:35
Have you tried looking at its documentation? – Stephen Kitt Feb 27 '18 at 09:22

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