NAME
statusbar – display a bar graph status window

SYNOPSIS
aux/statusbar [ –kt ] [ –w minx,miny,maxx,maxy ] title

DESCRIPTION
Aux/statusbar reads textual status lines from standard input, converting them into a continuously updated bar graph displayed in a new window on the screen. The title is displayed on a line above the bar graph. Each input line is two space–separated decimal numbers: the numerator and denominator of a fraction.

Statusbar exits when it reaches end–of–file on standard input. Typing DEL or control–C will also cause it to exit.

The options are:
–k    do not allow typing to cause statusbar to exit
–t    print an ASCII status bar to standard output, using backspace to redraw it
–w    set the coordinates of the statusbar window created

EXAMPLE
The –v option to hget(1) causes it to print status lines suitable for input to statusbar.

Monitor a long download:
hget –v –o bigfile http://server.com/bigfile |[2]
aux/statusbar 'big file download'

SOURCE
/sys/src/cmd/aux/statusbar.c
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