Re: Completely OT: Perl progress bar/meter

2002-06-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Sat, 29 Jun 2002, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 04:21:21AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > ... Be sure to > print enough spaces to completely overwrite the previous text if what > you're printing is shorter printf() is your friend for this issue. --

Re: Completely OT: Perl progress bar/meter

2002-06-29 Thread Ian D. Stewart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 June 2002 05:21, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've been thinking about this for a while, and even though it's not > really important, I would like to get it in. I've got a script which, on > average, processes about 10,000 files each time it

Re: Completely OT: Perl progress bar/meter

2002-06-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 04:21:21AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've been thinking about this for a while, and even though it's not > really important, I would like to get it in. I've got a script which, on > average, processes about 10,000 files each time it's run, taking a > minute or two to f

Completely OT: Perl progress bar/meter

2002-06-29 Thread Alex Malinovich
I've been thinking about this for a while, and even though it's not really important, I would like to get it in. I've got a script which, on average, processes about 10,000 files each time it's run, taking a minute or two to finish. Since having no feedback is not an option, I opted to have a "File