progress-bar — YouTube
Fancy and customizable progress bar for your batch scripts.

What is this?

This is a batch script that displays a progress bar while executing a task and provides feedback upon completion.
It uses the darkbox utility for enhanced display.

Usage

Please note that this documentation assumes familiarity with batch scripting and the darkbox utility.
If your code displays something instead of just doing stuff in the background, redirect the output to a file, f.e. my-script-output.txt.

First, to make it working add this code below at the top of your script:

if defined __ goto :main
set __=.
darkbox | call %0 %* | darkbox
set __=
pause >nul
goto :eof

In the main section, where your code is located, add this line above:

start /b "" "progress-bar.bat" window_x_size window_y_size progress_width bg_color fg_color

• window_x_size: The width of the console window in characters.
• window_y_size: The height of the console window in characters.
• progress_width: The desired width of the progress bar in characters.
• bg_color: The background color of the progress bar.
• fg_color: The foreground color of the progress bar.

For example:

start /b "" "progress-bar.bat" 80 25 40 f 1

After that, copy and paste this code at the bottom of your code (it will notify the progress function that your code has finished):

echo. > "progress-bar.stop"
:check-for-reply
    if exist "progress-bar.reply" (
        del /f /q "progress-bar.reply" >nul
        goto :reply-skip
    )
    goto :check-for-reply
:reply-skip

That's all. Once your code execution is complete, the progress bar will disappear.
If you want to display the results of your code, add the following at the end:

type my-script-output.txt

Refer to the example.bat file for a better understanding.

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