## This is similar to what FreeBSD does when it is booting
### some command &
### do_progress_spin_l $!
# A small "asterik" like thing will spin until the process is complete
#+ (when ps ax | grep PID no longer finds anything)
do_progress_spin_l()
{
  ## The characters to use
  # These will be overlapped via ^H
  ICON[0]="/"
  ICON[1]="-"
  ICON[2]="\\"
  ICON[3]="|"
 
  ## The process we wish to monitor
  PROCESS=$1
 
  ## Initialize count value
  # print out first icon
  icon_num=0
  echo -n ${ICON[$icon_num]}
 
  ## While the process exists in ps ax, do this loop
  while ( ps ax | grep $PROCESS | grep -v "grep" 1>/dev/null )
  do
    ## If our count is bigger than 3 (our highest number icon)
    # reset it to 0
    if [ "$icon_num" -gt "3" ]; then
    	icon_num=0
    fi
 
    ## ^Hnew_icon
    echo -n ${ICON[$icon_num]}
    icon_num=`expr $icon_num + 1`
 
    sleep 0.5
#    sleep 1
  done
 
  ## Little clean-up. Print done and a new line
  echo -n "... Done"
  echo ""
}