https://github.com/developerstoolbox/bash-spinner
Display a small progress spinner in bash while running your commands with optional message.
https://github.com/developerstoolbox/bash-spinner
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Display a small progress spinner in bash while running your commands with optional message.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/developerstoolbox/bash-spinner
- Owner: DevelopersToolbox
- License: mit
- Created: 2021-02-15T13:42:55.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2025-07-21T05:34:51.000Z (5 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-07-21T07:23:24.840Z (5 months ago)
- Topics: progress-spinner, spinner, wolfsoftware
- Language: Shell
- Homepage:
- Size: 164 KB
- Stars: 8
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 3
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: .github/CONTRIBUTING.md
- Funding: .github/FUNDING.yml
- License: LICENSE.md
- Code of conduct: .github/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- Citation: CITATION.cff
- Codeowners: .github/CODEOWNERS
- Security: .github/SECURITY.md
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README
## Overview
Display a small progress spinner in bash while running your commands with optional message.
This can be used for anything that takes time.
## Simple (Static) Example
This example passes a static string to start_spinner which remains in place until stop_spinner is called.
```shell
source spinner.sh
start_spinner "This is my cool spinner message"
sleep 10
stop_spinner
```
## Dynamic Example
This example passes a command to start_spinner_eval which will be re-evaluated each time the spinner is drawn until stop_spinner is called.
```shell
source spinner.sh
start_spinner_eval 'cat log | tail -1'
for i in {1..10}; do
echo "Iteration number ${i}" >> log
sleep 1
done
stop_spinner
```
## Config
You can set an environment value called SPINNER_DELAY to change the default (0.25 seconds) delay used when drawing the spinner.
