If you are on a system that supports zenity - it is yet another option. It uses a real progress bar which may not be what you want (will only work on your local machine). Here is a very long one liner that makes the use of most zenity progress options (you could shorten it to zenity --progress --pulsate): 

perl -e 'open my $fh, "|-", q{zenity --title=Working --width=400 --pro
+gress --text="Still going..." --percentage=50 --no-cancel --auto-kill
+ --auto-close}; select $fh; $|=1; select(undef,undef,undef,.1),print 
+$fh "$_\n#Now on $_...\n" for 1..100'

[download]

Here is the code broken out into more of a program. 

use IO::Handle; # for older perls
use Time::HiRes qw(usleep);

my $pid = open my $fh, "|-", q{zenity --title=Working --width=400 --pr
+ogress --percentage=50 --no-cancel --auto-kill --auto-close}
    or die "Could not open zenity: $!";

$fh->autoflush(1);


for my $i (1 .. 100) {
    usleep 100_000; # microseconds
    print $fh "$i\n"; # move the bar
    print $fh "#Now on $i...\n"; # update the text
    print "We've done $i\n";

    if ($i >= 50) {
        #kill 2 $pid; # not as portable
        print $fh "100\n"; # more portable with --auto-kill
        last;
    }
}

[download]

my @a=qw(random brilliant braindead); print $a[rand(@a)];

In reply to Re: Progress Bar in Perl script by Rhandom
in thread Progress Bar in Perl script by slayedbylucifer

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.