Simple progress indicators with awk

I wanted a simple way to see the progress of a data processing pipeline, and the internal progress bar tools were messed up by threading. I thus decided to use the number of output files in each folder as an indicator of progress. In my case the output of tree . looks like this: . └── steps ├── A01_001 │ ├── segment_nuclei │ │ ├── 0000.npz │ │ ├── 0001.npz │ │ ├── ... │ │ └── 0019.npz │ ├── tile │…