Question
I was wonder is there a way of asking Handbrake for a progress report while it is running. I'm helping a user setup handbrake to run in the background. The user wants to know the progress handbrake is making.
With the dd command on macos, you can do a
sudo kill -s siginfo $(pgrep ^dd)
to find the status.
Is there something like this for handbrake?
Operating system and version (e.g., Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, macOS 10.3 High Sierra, Windows 10 Creators Update)
macOS Yosemite
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Request status from background running HandBrake
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Re: Request status from background running HandBrake
You could pipe stderr to a file and read the contents periodically using tail and watch.
Something like HandBrakeCLI ... 2>/progress.log
And in another terminal, watch 'tail progress.log'
You may also wish to use tr to convert carriage returns to linefeeds.
Something like HandBrakeCLI ... 2>/progress.log
And in another terminal, watch 'tail progress.log'
You may also wish to use tr to convert carriage returns to linefeeds.
Re: Request status from background running HandBrake
If memory serves correctly, Apple doesn’t ship watch. You may need to get it from homebrew or find source to compile.