Yeah.. I know it prints 100% twice. It only does that if the file doesnt evenly divide by 10. This code was a quick hack of 15 minutes to see if the idea would work. I still need to mess with it to make it work better.

The reason why I pass a subroutine as a variable to the copy routine is just so I could have the calling program determine how to display the status. That way I could just redefine that subroutine and have it display an actually prograss bar or something..

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Sweet, a progress bar would be a nice touch.
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Here is quick but cheap way to do it. Im just posting the progress routine but in the main routine you also have to toss the percent variable and instead have a variable keep track of total bytes writen. Then call this sub passing it total_writen, and file size. This routine also uses fastolfe's suggestion of using \r instead of \n so just the line is updated ( works on win2k too!).

sub FileProgress () {
    my $wrote       = shift;
    my $size        = shift;
    my $percent     = $wrote / $size * 100;
    
    case: {
            if ($percent <11)     { print "\r[*         ]"; last;}
            if ($percent <21)     { print "\r[**        ]"; last;}
            if ($percent <31)     { print "\r[***       ]"; last;}
            if ($percent <41)     { print "\r[****      ]"; last;}
            if ($percent <51)     { print "\r[*****     ]"; last;}
            if ($percent <61)     { print "\r[******    ]"; last;}
            if ($percent <71)     { print "\r[*******   ]"; last;}
            if ($percent <81)     { print "\r[********  ]"; last;}
            if ($percent <91)     { print "\r[********* ]"; last;}
            if ($percent <=100)   { print "\r[**********]"; last;}
    }
    printf " %3u",$percent;
    print '%';
    printf " done. %u bytes.",$wrote;    
    return 1;
}
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