Comment on What helps people get comfortable on the command line?

Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• magnus@lemmy.ahall.se ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Depending on what one is doing, placing pv in between (usually with -s to specify size of data if known in advance) gives a progress bar, with speed of and size o# data passing through.

  Say you have an SQL dump of 1048576 bytes: cat dump.sql | pv -s 1048576 | mysql somedb and now you know how far it is instead of just waiting :)

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• agilob@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  On BSDs you can do ctrl+T and it prints progress, there were plants to implemented this on Linux, but it didn’t get enough traction.

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• Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m about 20% competent in Linux so thank you all for the comments. I pretty much dabble and spend a lot of time using snapshots lol

  Saving this post!

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• otter@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  even a spinning icon would be nice. It’s hard to tell if I should kill something or if it’s still in progress / finishing up

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