2020-04-03 00:52:36 (UTC-03:00)
Marcel Rodrigues <marcelgmr@gmail.com>
add manual page
diff --git a/mpb.1 b/mpb.1 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..13493de --- /dev/null +++ b/mpb.1 @@ -0,0 +1,38 @@ +.TH MPB 1 +.SH NAME +mpb \- more progress bar +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B mpb +[\fB\-v\fR] [\fB\-s\fR] [\fB\-w\fR\fIWIDTH\fR] [\fITOTAL\fR] +.SH DESCRIPTION +Show progress of lines read from \fIstdin\fR. +.SH OPTIONS +.TP +\fB\-v\fR +show current line +.TP +\fB\-s\fR +show activity spinner +.TP +\fB\-w\fR\fIWIDTH\fR +set width of progress bar (default = 32) +.TP +\fITOTAL\fR +number of lines expected to be read until completion of task +.br +if \fITOTAL\fR is not given or it's zero, the progress bar will not be shown +.SH EXAMPLES +.PP +Use \fBseq(1)\fR to test drive \fBmpb\fR: +.RS +.nf + $ n=5000; seq 1 $n | mpb -vsw50 $n +.fi +.RE +.PP +Show progress of \fBtar(1)\fR extraction: +.RS +.nf + $ f=foo.tgz; n=$(tar tf $f | wc -l); tar vxf $f | mpb -v $n +.fi +.RE