Question

I’m using C in Linux. How do I show a progress indicator that will let me know when the program (or parts of the program) will complete? For example, it could be something like “Searching…67%” and the percentage will keep increasing until the Searching portion ends.

Thank you.

Answer 1

I believe if you do something like:

while (perc < 100) {
    printf("Searching... %d%%\r", perc); 
    fflush(stdout);
    //do work
}

the fflush() is necessary to avoid the line buffering. Note that I am using \r and not \n.