tqdm — Show progress over time of a command. More information: <https://tqdm.github.io/docs/cli/>.

Show iterations per second and use `stdout` afterwards

{{seq 10000000}} | tqdm | {{command}}

Create a progress bar

{{seq 10000000}} | tqdm --total {{10000000}} | {{command}}

Create an archive out of a directory and use the file count of that directory to create a progress bar

zip {{[-r|--recurse-paths]}} {{path/to/archive.zip}} {{path/to/directory}} | tqdm --total $(find {{path/to/directory}} | wc {{[-l|--lines]}}) --unit files --null

Create an archive with tar and create a progress bar (system agnostic, GNU tar uses `stdout` while BSD tar uses `stderr`)

tar vzcf {{path/to/archive.tar.gz}} {{path/to/directory}} 2>&1 | tqdm --total $(find {{path/to/directory}} | wc {{[-l|--lines]}}) --unit files --null