I made some progress, however I was not sure what you meant in number 2. Since I am using file find, my units would be every file greater than 25Mb for example. 
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else {
        my ( $size_input ) = pop @_ ;
        if ( $^O !~ /(?:)dec\w+/i ) {
            my ( $dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid ) ;
            (( $dev,$ino,$mode,$nlink,$uid,$gid ) = lstat($_) ) &&
            ( $dev >= 0 ) &&
            !( $File::Find::prune |= ($dev != $File::Find::topdev ) ) 
+&&
            ( int(((-s _) + 1023) / 1024 ) >= $size_input  ) &&
            push ((@large_files), $name) ;
            $number_of_files = scalar @large_files ;
            $timer->restart( min => 0, max => $number_of_files ) ;
            print $timer->report( "%45b %p\r", 10 ) ;
        }

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### The output is not entirely accurate. For a large filesystem this is painted across my screen and counts down. For smaller filesystems, numbers are not calculated quickly enough and all I see is n/a. For mid-size filesystems all I see is 100% ### 
##################################...........  76.9%
#########################....................  55.6%
"output of the file find hereafter"

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In the code  print $timer->report( "%45b %p\r", 10 ) ; does 10 represent % points to increment or decrement in his calculations? thank you

In reply to Re^4: Time modules by mikejones
in thread Time modules by mikejones

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