Request status from background running HandBrake

[rccharles]

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

Error message text or screenshot (If Applicable)

[BradleyS]

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.

[BradleyS]

If memory serves correctly, Apple doesn’t ship watch. You may need to get it from homebrew or find source to compile.

[rccharles]

Ok, thanks.