macOS
Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install vramsteglocal Homebrew formula metadata
MacPortsverified · 94%
sudo port install vramstegMacPorts ports tree · sysutils/vramsteg/Portfile · source: api.github.com
brew / rank 13255
Install vramsteg with Homebrew, apt, MacPorts
Add progress bars to command-line applications. Version 1.1.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data. Also installable with debian: sudo apt install vramsteg.
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Additional install commands
Linux
Debian aptverified · 92%
sudo apt install vramstegDebian stable package indexes · vramsteg · source: deb.debian.org
overview
Package summary
Add progress bars to command-line applications
Project links
Commands and aliases
- vramsteg
history
Project history and usage
vramsteg is a small Gothenburg Bit Factory command-line progress-bar utility. Its name is a play on the Swedish word framsteg, meaning progress, and it is meant to add progress indicators to shell scripts or other command-line programs.
Project history
Gothenburg Bit Factory presents vramsteg as a script-language-agnostic CLI progress bar with support for colors, labels, percentage completion, elapsed time, and time estimates. The project is closely associated with the same organization behind Taskwarrior and is documented as being used in that project's test suites.
Taskwarrior project news announced vramsteg 1.1.0 on September 26, 2015, describing the release as bug fixes plus 64-bit value support. The current project page still centers the same simple role: adding progress-bar capability to programs that can call vramsteg repeatedly during a long iterative operation.
Adoption history
Public adoption appears modest and utility-driven rather than broad. Its packaging in Unix-like package managers and the existence of a manpage reflect enough use to preserve it as a reusable command-line helper, but the upstream story is intentionally small.
The strongest adoption signal is internal and ecosystem-specific: Gothenburg Bit Factory says it uses vramsteg in its own test suites, making the tool part of the Taskwarrior-adjacent CLI tooling culture.
How it is used
A script calls vramsteg with minimum, maximum, and current values to render or update a progress bar, optionally adding labels, colors, elapsed time, estimates, percentage display, width, or style settings. It can also remove a progress bar or report a start timestamp for elapsed-time calculations.
Its role overlaps with hand-written shell progress bars, but it lets scripts offload terminal rendering details to a reusable executable.
Why package nerds care
vramsteg is notable mainly as a tiny packaged CLI affordance: it turns progress display into a composable command rather than code copied into every shell script.
It is a good example of a small utility whose value comes from being available everywhere through package managers, not from being a large standalone application.
Timeline
- 2015: vramsteg 1.1.0 is announced with bug fixes and 64-bit value support.
- 2020s: Gothenburg Bit Factory continues to host the project page and source repository.
Related projects
- vramsteg is related to Taskwarrior and Gothenburg Bit Factory's command-line tooling ecosystem.
- It also belongs to the broader family of terminal progress helpers used by shell scripts and command-line programs.
Sources
security posture
Risk level: green
narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.
Risk classifier
green risk · low confidence · appliance
Why
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals
Signals
- metadata:no-higher-risk-signals
Install behavior
- No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Recommended review
Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.
executables
Installed executables
| Command | Kind | Exposure | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
vramsteg | executable | indexed executable | Discovered from the local executable index. |
freshness
Version and freshness
These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.
page generated2026-08-03
manager version1.1.0
manager updated
local dataunknown
upstreamnot available
latest detectednot detected
- okNo freshness warnings were generated.
install metadata
Package metadata
| Package key | brew:vramsteg |
|---|---|
| Version | 1.1.0 |
| Package manager | Homebrew |
| Homepage | https://gothenburgbitfactory.org/vramsteg/ |
| Repository | https://github.com/GothenburgBitFactory/vramsteg |
| Bottle | not recorded |
| Service | none declared |
source database matches
Other package-manager records
Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.
Debian apt95%
vramsteg 1.1.0-1+b2
provide shell scripts with a full-featured progress indicator
http://tasktools.org/projects/vramsteg.html
sudo apt install vramsteg- Section: utils
- Architecture: amd64
- Source Package: vramsteg
- 3 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Vramsteg
Ubuntu apt95%
vramsteg 1.1.0-1build2
provide shell scripts with a full-featured progress indicator
http://tasktools.org/projects/vramsteg.html
sudo apt install vramsteg- Section: universe/utils
- Architecture: amd64
- 3 dependencies
- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Vramsteg
MacPorts95%
vramsteg
sudo port install vramsteg- normalized package name match
- Matched by: Vramsteg
source trail
Generated from repository data
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Combined YAML source
View the package source record on GitHub.
Used sources
- Geiger risk classifier
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
- curated package history
- external package-manager database matches
- pkg.so package database
- pkgdb category and tag curation