draco2002

here is the situation

running

#portsdb -Uu

on freebsd takes a while, and doesn't give you a progress status, but

if you type

#ps | grep "DIRPR"

you get back what folder it is currently on

5650 p1 IL+ 0:01.27 make -B describe DIRPRFX=net/
22050 p1 IL+ 0:00.07 make -B describe DIRPRFX=science/

so what i want to be able to do is have a script that polls this command and lets you know how far along portsdb is by checking what the DIRPRFX is and where it is in the alphabet.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks in advance

Dizzutch

alright, so if you're using every letter of the alphabet, you're gonna have a bar divided in 26 parts. So all you have to do is to run the command, map the letter you're on to a number, A being 1 Z being 26 is the easiest, then print out a star when that number changes. When it's done print a new line, and there's your progress bar.
good luck/
Dizz

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draco2002

Hey Dizzutch,

Thanks for the help. got that far the only thing holding me back now is my grep regex expression

trying to get the first letter after the equals sign

22050 p1 IL+ 0:00.07 make -B describe DIRPRFX=science/

any help with that work be great

Infinite Recursion

I put the string you had into a file... then parsed it from there via a script...
You should be able to embed this in your script and rid yourself of the data.dat file...

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