tprogbar

tprogbar is a simple commandline tool to help you make your our ASCII progress bar.

Installation

To install tprogbar you can edit the Makefile to match your local setup (tprogbar is installed into the /usr/local/bin by default).

Afterwards enter the following command to install tprogbar (if necessary as root).

sudo make install

To uninstall tprogbar, just run:

sudo make uninstall

Usage

tprogbar can create help you to create simple ASCII progress bar with the options listed bellow:

• -v <value>: informs the value to be displayed on progress bar;
• -l <value>: sets the lowest value (default: 0);
• -g <value>: sets the greates value (default: 100);
• -s <step>: sets the step value of the progress bar (default: 5);
• -b <string>: string format of the bar - should contain %s and no spaces between characters (default [%s]);
• -p <char>: sets the progress character (avoid “*”);
• -m char: sets the mask character of the progress bar (avoid “*”).

Examples

It can be used with xsetroot to display your volume and screen brightness as a status bar notification.

# Audio volume at 50%
$ xsetroot -name "audio: $(tprogbar -v 50)"

An example using every option listed above:

• Sets the lowest value to 50;
• Sets the highest value to 900;
• Sets the value to 90;
• Change string format to "{ %s }";
• Change mask character to "="
• Change progress character to "+"

$ tprogbar -v 90 -l 50 -g 900 -s 50 -b "{ %s }" -p "+" -m "="
{ +================ }

Team

Edimar Calebe Castanho (Calebe94)	Gabriel Gaboardi (Gabo)

License

All software is covered under GNU General Public License v3.0.