I agree with advice that a template is a good idea, even with a command line tool, but there is already a nice progress package specifically for command line tools: Time::Progress.

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strictures;
use Time::Progress;
use Time::HiRes "usleep"; # <- just for demo.

my $total = 42;
my $progress = Time::Progress->new();
$progress->attr( min => 1, max => $total );

$| = 1;
for my $done ( 1 .. $total )
{
    usleep( rand 500_000 );
    print $progress->report("\rProcessing: $total files to process %L 
+%40B%E %p", $done);
}
print "\nDone!\n";

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Update: fixed code booger; s/42/\$total/ in for loop.

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