Command line progress bar in Java

Question

I have a Java program running in command line mode. I would like to display a progress bar, showing the percentage of job done. The same kind of progress bar you would see u

Answer 1

Here is a modified version of the above:

private static boolean loading = true;
private static synchronized void loading(String msg) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
    System.out.println(msg);
    Thread th = new Thread() {
        @Override
        public void run() {
            try {
                System.out.write("\r|".getBytes());
                while(loading) {
                    System.out.write("-".getBytes());
                    Thread.sleep(500);
                }
                System.out.write("| Done \r\n".getBytes());
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
        }
    };
    th.start();
}

... and in main:

loading("Calculating ...");