I'm trying to get the g4u scripts running on debian machines. I've got
it all running now expect for a fancy progress bar.

The original g4u uses 'progress' to get a progress bar of the data pipe:

ftp -o "| progress -z dd obs=1M of=/dev/${diskpart}" ftp.....

I can't find this program for linux. I have found the program 'bar' but
there's no debian package for it and I would like to be able to use it
out of the box.

So anyone a clue how to accomplish this progress bar on the data pipe in
bash?

Rg,

Arnaud Loonstra