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Date:      Sat, 9 Mar 2013 22:52:47 -0300
From:      =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lu=EDs?= Fernando Schultz Xavier da Silveira <schultz@ime.usp.br>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to know % of read file in cat?
Message-ID:  <20130310015247.GA2681@g470>
In-Reply-To: <20130309105400.b181e12aa222502974715a1b@yahoo.es>
References:  <20130309105400.b181e12aa222502974715a1b@yahoo.es>

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You might want to try the sysutils/pv port, which is a small
program that works like cat, but provides a progress bar.

On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 10:54:00AM +0100, Eduardo Morras wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I use cat to read a file and pass it to another app, the command is this:
> 
> camibar% cat file.git | fossil import --git file.fossil
> 
> It takes a lot of time, file.git is 12GB, and i want to know if there's some 'magic' trick can I use to show me how many bytes or the % of the file.git cat sent to the other app.
> 
> Maybe cat isn't the correct tool?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
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> Eduardo Morras <emorrasg@yahoo.es>
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