On Wed, 04 Oct 2023 10:50:45 -0500, "John D. Baker" wrote: > I routinely use an idiom like: > > echo 'progress -ezf $file $cmd $args ...' > > often in a 'for' loop and pipe the series of commands to a root shell > run with 'sudo sh -v'. > > For a while now, 'progress' "progress bar and statistics" has stopped > displaying. > > It seems to have begun after some update to 10.0_BETA (and probably > -current, although I don't usually run those commands on a -current > system).
This is due to a change in sudo to run commands in their own pseudo-terminal by default. You can get the old behavior by adding the following line to your sudoers file: Defaults !use_pty It looks like progress(1) is not displaying the progress bar because sudo is not running it as the foreground process. There is a heuristic in sudo to try to avoid issues when running sudo commands in a shell script that results in progress(1) running in the background. It may be possible to improve on this in sudo but in the meantime, disabling "use_pty" will work around the problem. - todd
