I think Time::Progress is what I need or something similar. I am playing with it now. To answer your questions, IDK for sure.

I am using File::Find on some small and some very large filesystems, 30Gb for example. I could use the Unix time binary to give me total time elapsed.

The units would be the number of files to look at for a specified size in any one filesystem

I could adjust the expected time, something solid is ideal but "something" is desired, maybe a rough estimate???

The interface for times lapsed and time to completed is OK to look like 

 
Elapsed Time:   0:20 min:sec, ########..........................20.0%

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nothing fancy. Does min and max represent seconds here ? $timer->attr( min => 0, max => 100 ).

Is the for loop here used just for the printing of #s?

CPAN does not say: 

min

    This is the min value of the items that will follow (used to calcu
+late estimated finish time)

max

    This is the max value of all items in the even (also used to calcu
+late estimated finish time)

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use strict ;
use warnings ;
use File::Find ;
use Logfile::Rotate ;
use Time::Progress ;

$| = 1 ;    ###-- autoflush to get \r working --###
my $timer = new Time::Progress ;
$timer->attr( min => 0, max => 100 );
$timer->restart;
print "\n";
for my $incr ( 0 .. 20 ) {    ###-- print progress bar and % done --##
+#
    print $timer->report( "Elapsed Time: %L min:sec, %40b %p\r", $incr
+ ) ;
    sleep 1 ;
}

### MAIN CODE HERE ###
<snip>

logroll ;
### END OF MAIN CODE ###
###-- stop timer --###
$timer->stop ;

###-- report times --###
print $timer->elapsed_str ;

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thank you!

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