PROGRESS(1)

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💖 NAME 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Embedded Software Update Documentation corner of the manual, page 1, and the star of the show is progress — the SWUpdate progress tool, no cap.

swupdate-progress is out here trying to connect to a running instance of SWUpdate, because the whole point is to get the status of a running update. that's it, that's the job. 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

swupdate-progress [option]

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so swupdate-progress is literally an example of how to connect to SWUpdate via the progress interface. like, it's the demo that ate. 🫶

it shows a simple little bar on stdout with the percent indication of the current update, and then it reports the result of the update back to you. main character energy, honestly.

and optionally?? it can drive "psplash" or execute a script after an update. versatile icon behavior. ✨

here's every single option, laid out for you the way a group chat would want it:

  • -c — use colors to show results on stdout 🌈
  • -e — command to be executed after an update
  • -p — send percentage to psplash
  • -r — optionally reboot the target after a successful update 👑
  • -s — path to progress IPC socket, in case the default is not taken
  • -w — waits for a SWUpdate connection instead of exit with error
  • -q — don't print progress bar 🙈
  • -h — print a help
ngl bestie, that's the entire vibe. connect, watch the percent go up, report the result. periodt. 💜

Copyright 2013-2026, Stefano Babic

and that's a wrap on this one, fr fr — this page is from version 2026.05, dated Oct 03, 2026. go forth and watch your progress bar slay 🦋💖✨

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