The ultimate collection of loading animations for Bash

Ready-to-use loading animations in ASCII and UTF-8 for easy integration into your Bash scripts.

Have an idea for a nice-looking animation? Please help expand the collection!

⚠ Important note: do not copy the raw script file from your browser or you will have broken animations, as the non-breaking spaces will be converted into regular spaces.

Instead, use one of the following method to retrieve the script:

git clone https://github.com/Silejonu/bash_loading_animations
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Silejonu/bash_loading_animations/main/bash_loading_animations.sh

Add support for loading animations to your script

1. Copy the animations list from bash_loading_animations.sh to the top of your script

2. Copy the code from bash_loading_animations.sh to the top of your script, below the animations list

There are compact versions of the code included at the end of bash_loading_animations.sh.

Show a loading animation for foo

Show a loading animation for the command foo:

start_loading_animation "${name_of_the_animation[@]}"
foo
stop_loading_animation

If the command prints some output in the terminal, you may want to add:

foo 1> /dev/null # hide standard output
# or
foo 2> /dev/null # hide error messages
# or
foo &> /dev/null # hide all output

Some of the animations have been adapted from https://github.com/sindresorhus/cli-spinners.