improve on verbosity

files/archive_subfolders

@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ function listfolders() {
 }
 function fsize() {
     echo -en "\e[2K\r"
-    [[ -z "$2" ]] || echo -n "$2 -> "
-    ls -sh "$1" | xargs echo -n
+    [[ -z "$2" ]] || printf "%s -> " "$2"
+    printf "%s %s" "$( timeout 1 fastdu -h "$1" )" "$1"
 }
 
 [[ "$1" = "-h" ]] && helpexit
@@ -25,18 +25,21 @@ listfolders . | tr "[:cntrl:]" " "
 echo ''
 echo '<ctrl-c> to quit'
 read foo
+read -a SLEEPS <<< "0.1 0.5 1 2 3 4 5"
 
 listfolders . | while read -r -d "" d; do
-  echo -n $d
-  tar cvf "$d.tar" "$d" > "$d.tar.lst" &
+  printf "%s" $d
+  tar cvvf "$d.tar" "$d" > "$d.tar.lst" &
   PID=$!
   DU=$( nice fastdu -h "$d" & )
   DUPID=$!
   while kill -0 "$PID" &>/dev/null; do
     [[ -f "$d.tar" ]] && fsize "$d.tar" "$DU"
-    for i in {1..5}; do
+    for i in ${SLEEPS[@]}; do
         sleep $i; kill -0 "$PID" &>/dev/null || break 2
+        printf .
     done
+    read -a SLEEPS <<< "4 4 4 4"
   done
   fsize "$d.tar" "$DU"
   kill -0 "$DUPID" &>/dev/null || kill "$DUPID" &>/dev/null
@@ -49,16 +52,18 @@ done
     echo 'Proceed to compress? <ctrl-c> to quit'
     read foo
 }
-
+read -a SLEEPS <<< "0.1 0.5 1 2 3 4 5"
 listfolders . | while read -r -d "" d; do
   DU=$( fastdu -h "$d.tar" )
   gzip -f "$d.tar" &
   PID=$!
   while kill -0 "$PID" >/dev/null 2>&1; do
     [[ -f "$d.tar.gz" ]] && fsize "$d.tar.gz" "$DU"
-    for i in {1..5}; do
+    for i in ${SLEEPS[@]}; do
         sleep $i; kill -0 "$PID" &>/dev/null || break 2
+        printf .
     done
+    read -a SLEEPS <<< "4 4 4 4"
   done
   fsize "$d.tar.gz" "$DU"
   echo ''