Is there a way to see any tar progress per file?

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Published on 2010-07-28T11:51:37Z Indexed on 2012/08/28 9:41 UTC
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I have a couple of big files that I would like to compress. I can do this with for example

tar cvfj big-files.tar.bz2 folder-with-big-files

The problem is that I can't see any progress, so I don't have a clue how long it will take or anything like that. Using v I can at least see when each file is completed, but when the files are few and large this isn't the most helpful.

Is there a way I can get tar to show more detailed progress? Like a percentage done or a progress bar or estimated time left or something. Either for each single file or all of them or both.

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