Progress is a simple utility that can be put, e.g., in the middle of a
shell pipeline to report how much data has been processed so far.

One of the possible styles of output:

 25% |===========>--------------------------------------| -


If you got the source as a tar file, see the file "INSTALL" for
generic compilation and installation instructions.

If you got the source from CVS, or if the file "configure" is missing,
running "bootstrap.sh" may be able to generate it. (This requires the
GNU autoconf tools to be installed.)

The CVS repository can be found on dev.w3.org, see
http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/Progress/