JoeDog::ProgressBar - A PERL5 ASCII text progress bar. http://www.joedog.org ABSTRACT: This is a autoloadable module which allows the programmer to add a progress bar to loops COPYRIGHT Copyright 2001 by Richard Sands Copyright 2005 by Jeffrey Fulmer See COPYING for more details. INSTALLATION JoeDog::ProgressBar.pm was built using perl Make::Maker utility If you are familiar with that utility you should have no problem with this installation as it will be familiar: $ perl Makefile.PL $ make $ make test $ su $ make install USAGE use JoeDog::ProgressBar; my $bar = new ProgressBar($max_size); for(0..$max_size){ $bar->refresh($_); } For greater detail, see: perldoc JoeDog::ProgressBar