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How to make a progress bar work in Zenity?
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The way zenity works for displaying progress bars is capturing your echo commands from your bash script via the | (pipe) redirection command (symbol).
Here is an example you can try that I lifted from Ubuntu Forums:
#!/bin/bash
# Force Zenity Status message box to always be on top.
(
# =================================================================
echo "# Running First Task." ; sleep 2
# Command for first task goes on this line.
# =================================================================
echo "25"
echo "# Running Second Task." ; sleep 2
# Command for second task goes on this line.
# =================================================================
echo "50"
echo "# Running Third Task." ; sleep 2
# Command for third task goes on this line.
# =================================================================
echo "75"
echo "# Running Fourth Task." ; sleep 2
# Command for fourth task goes on this line.
# =================================================================
echo "99"
echo "# Running Fifth Task." ; sleep 2
# Command for fifth task goes on this line.
# =================================================================
echo "# All finished." ; sleep 2
echo "100"
) |
zenity --progress \
--title="Progress Status" \
--text="First Task." \
--percentage=0 \
--auto-close \
--auto-kill
(( $? != 0 )) && zenity --error --text="Error in zenity command."
exit 0
If you follow the link to Ubuntu Forums you can read a discussion of this script. If after that you still have questions please ask via comment below and I’ll do my best to answer them for you.