You can also have nice dialogs by using dialog/xdialog/zenity. For example, you can use named pipes and get a nice progress bar: mkfifo progress cat pr

You can also have nice dialogs by using dialog/xdialog/zenity. For example, you can use named pipes and get a nice progress bar: mkfifo progress cat progress | zenity --progress --text='progress' --percentage=0 & echo 10 > progress sleep 10 echo '# Done!' > progress echo 100 > progress https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/3.32/progress.html.en https://help.gnome.org/users/zenity/3.32/progress.html.en http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_adv_dialog.php http://linuxcommand.org/lc3_adv_dialog.php