pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee

for i in $(seq 0 5 100); do echo $i; sleep 1; done | dialog --gauge "Install..." 6 40

using seq inside a subshell instead of a bash sequence to create increments.

Sample Output

Progress dialog

By: zed

2010-10-08 04:08:17

echo seq sleep

9 Alternatives + Submit Alt

pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee

just make some data scrolling off the terminal. wow.
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48

cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -C | grep "ca fe"

BOYPT · 2010-09-27 08:20:44 23
pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee

This will turn it in an infinite loop and also shows random words from a file, so it won't be the same each time and also not just a number.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
15

j=0;while true; do let j=$j+1; for i in $(seq 0 20 100); do echo $i;sleep 1; done | dialog --gauge "Install part $j : `sed $(perl -e "print int rand(99999)")"q;d" /usr/share/dict/words`" 6 40;done

houghi · 2010-10-08 12:12:00 10
pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee

Dialog's gauge widget accepts progress updates on stdin. This version runs dialog once and updates it every second. There's no need to use timeout which causes screen flicker since it restarts dialog for each update.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
13

for i in {0..600}; do echo $i; sleep 1; done | dialog --gauge "Install..." 6 40

dennisw · 2010-10-05 02:29:23 5
pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee

The first parameter after timeout is the key parameter; number of seconds to wait. With a 6 you have 600 seconds for your coffee break (10min).
This is sample output - yours may be different.
11

for i in `seq 0 100`;do timeout 6 dialog --gauge "Install..." 6 40 "$i";done

javisol · 2010-09-28 06:38:20 16
pretend to be busy in office to enjoy a cup of coffee

Not as taxing on the CPU.
This is sample output - yours may be different.
10

while [ true ]; do head -n 100 /dev/urandom; sleep .1; done | hexdump -C | grep "ca fe"

campassi · 2010-10-05 16:23:31 6

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