You Suck at Programming

4. 9. 2025

Creating a PERSISTENT Progress Bar on the Terminal with Bash! v2 Progress Bar

video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2rbAvXMcXQ

source:
https://github.com/bahamas10/ysap/blob/main/code/2025-09-03-progress-bar-2/progress-bar

Nice ‘fatal’ function imho:

fatal() {
  echo '[FATAL]' "$@" >&2
  exit 1
}

Why not a bar with higher resolution?

# one block is 8 possible parts, 12.5 % in each
#U+2588	█	Full block                  100  %
#U+2589	▉	Left seven eighths block    87.5 %
#U+258A	▊	Left three quarters block   75   %
#U+258B	▋	Left five eighths block     62.5 %  
#U+258C	▌	Left half block             50   %
#U+258D	▍	Left three eighths block    37.5 %
#U+258E	▎	Left one quarter block      25   %
#U+258F	▏	Left one eighth block       12.5 %

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