Progress bar with compression
Wish you had an idea of when your bzip2 operation was complete? Install pv with your package manager and use like so:
pv largefile.log | bzip2 > largefile.log.bz2Swap out "bzip2" for "gzip" or any other compression application and it works the same.
Written by Alan Ivey
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Wow, I never heard earlier about pv :O Thanks a lot!
over 1 year ago
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Such a simple solution for all STDIN based operations ! Thanks :)
over 1 year ago
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