ProgressBar(3)

NAME
Term::ProgressBar - Perl extension to display a progress bar

SYNOPSIS
  use Term::ProgressBar;
  my $num_items = 100;
  my $bar = new Term::Progressbar('working magic', $num_items);
  foreach (0 .. $num_items-1) {
      # do work for item $_
      update $bar;
  }

DESCRIPTION
This module provides a simple progress indicator for command line programs. You initialize a ProgressBar object with a brief description of what is happening and the number of things that need doing, and after each thing is done you call the object's update() method.

At the moment, this is presented to the user (on stderr) as a sequence of 50 hash marks (no matter how many things are being done).

METHODS
Create and return a new progress bar, which is displayed to the user. Parameters are:
Update the progress bar by one 'tick'. You should call this after completing each one of the 'items' included in the counter's total. The progress bar will be updated accordingly (at present, this means more text printed to stderr).

AUTHOR
Ed Avis, epa98@doc.ic.ac.uk

SEE ALSO
perl(1).