Command Line Progress Bar

1.11.1

Bar is a simple tool to copy a stream of data from input to output while displaying for the user:

• The amount of data passed
• The throughput of the data transfer

and, if the total size of the data stream is known:

• The estimated time remaining
• What percent of the data stream has been copied
• A progress bar

Bar was originally written for the purpose of estimating the amount of time needed to transfer large amounts (many, many gigabytes) of data across a network in a tar/ssh pipe.