20 Mar
2015
20 Mar
'15
6:57 a.m.
On 18/03/15 11:04 PM, Christopher Browne wrote:
On 18 March 2015 at 20:40, <phiscock@ee.ryerson.ca> wrote:
http://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools
Courtesy of my Bro, Dave Hiscocks.
I like his tastes quite well! Apparently I know some obscure Unix tools! :-) And better still, I am not familiar with all of them.
I'll add 'pv' to the list. Great way to watch progress if you are using zcat/cat to pipe something somewhere. For example, got a database dump? 'cat db.sql | pv | yoursqlengine' You get a nice progress bar and estimation of time to complete, autoscaling speed. Lots of other options too. Cheers, Jamon