Preface
There is a requirement for background running programs, such as viewing the current progress, to see the change of a certain value at the terminal:

First, it provides a very local way to create and write progress landing files such as process. You can then use watch -n 1 cat process to see the progress.

There are two ways, python and shell

shell version, as follows (with an example of a progress bar)

#! /bin/bash

for ((i=0; $i<=100; i+=1))
do
    printf "progress: [%-100s] %d%%\r" "xxxxxxxxxx xxx xxx" $i
    sleep 1
done

function sleepPrograss(){
    [ $# -eq 0 ] && echo "sleepPrograss Usage: sleepPrograss 10 "
    [ $# -eq 0 ] && return 1


    allTime=$1
    strDone=''
    stepTime=$(echo "scale=1; $allTime/100" | bc)
    for ((i=0; $i<=100; i+=1))
    do
        printf "progress: [%-100s] %d%%\r" $strDone $i
        sleep $stepTime 
        strDone+='#'
    done
    echo
}

python version, as follows (with an example of multithreaded output progress)

Basic usage example

#! /usr/bin/env python

import os
import sys
import time
while 1:
    os.write(1, "\r[%.3f]" % time.time())
    sys.stdout.flush()
    time.sleep(1)

The sub thread completes its own tasks, and the main thread tracks the execution progress.

**

#! /usr/bin/env python 
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

'''
@filename :   demo.py
@authors  :   U{peterguo<mailto: peterguo@tencent.com>}
@copyright:   tencent
@date     :   2012-11-15
@version  :   1.0.0.1
'''
import os
import sys
import time
import thread

g_nTotal = 100
g_nProcessed = 0
g_fStartTime = time.time()

def simpleThdreadFun(interval):
    global g_nProcessed
    global g_nTotal
    while g_nTotal > g_nProcessed:
        time.sleep(interval)
        g_nProcessed += 1
    thread.exit_thread()

def test():
    
    global g_nTotal
    global g_nProcessed
    global g_fStartTime
    g_fStartTime = time.time()
    
    thread.start_new_thread(simpleThdreadFun, (1,))
    thread.start_new_thread(simpleThdreadFun, (2,))
    thread.start_new_thread(simpleThdreadFun, (3,))
    thread.start_new_thread(simpleThdreadFun, (4,))
    
    while True:
        time.sleep(0.5)
        fRunTime = time.time() - g_fStartTime
        nLeftNum = g_nTotal - g_nProcessed
        fLeftTime = fRunTime * nLeftNum / (g_nProcessed + 0.1)
        fPrograss = 100.0 * g_nProcessed / g_nTotal
        
        os.write(1, "\rLeftTime[%.3f]\tLeftNum[%d]\tProgress[%.3f %% (%d/%d) ]" %
                   (fLeftTime, nLeftNum, fPrograss, g_nProcessed, g_nTotal))
        sys.stdout.flush()
        if g_nTotal <= g_nProcessed:
            break
    print "\nTest Done, use %.3f seconds" % (time.time() - g_fStartTime)
      
if __name__=='__main__':
    test()