Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Ha! I wrote the following a few weeks ago, thinking some day >> I'd write something more involved. I'm not very happy with it, >> because, at least with coreutils, it runs for too long without >> giving any progress indicator. > > You could use "tee" to display the program's output as it runs, > then append the diff when it has completed.
Yes, but the point of my exercise was to avoid the voluminous output.