If my name were merlyn, I might say that "I" have a column that might help with this. If you take the code from that column and understand it enough, you could make this work for you. The most basic principle here would be to fork() a separate process. The parent could do the progress, while the child would handle the upload. I might just whip up a script to do just that (if I can find the time).

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