Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 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. > > I guess I misunderstood: I assumed that the point was to make the > changes obvious. By repeating the changes at the end of the run, > it is possible to draw attention to them, even if it doesn't > reduce the volume of the output.
Ok. "one" of the points :-) > I suppose that one could provide some kind of progress feedback > by printing a "." for each line as it is output. Yep. As the comments suggested, I'll do something like that, eventually.
