From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 9 09:53:55 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE83C5 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 09:53:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from emorrasg@yahoo.es) Received: from nm10.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com (nm10.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com [77.238.189.39]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6AB96842 for ; Sat, 9 Mar 2013 09:53:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [77.238.189.233] by nm10.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Mar 2013 09:53:46 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.72] by tm14.bullet.mail.ird.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Mar 2013 09:53:46 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp109.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 09 Mar 2013 09:53:46 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.es; s=s1024; t=1362822826; bh=Mqqk+hestgn2ftzpMChtT/ZplzCvX03x+WGwr5kwX/s=; h=X-Yahoo-Newman-Id:X-Yahoo-Newman-Property:X-YMail-OSG:X-Yahoo-SMTP:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-Id:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=xr4MMYeUpQMyUqW02yGaO0u1x778cU/ySRKJY30LfzcYmrt81LfF4+Bek5Zmkmu+Y2GyqOtJHepe7VdzGkK3+NUPdmGeJo+1oavWx+5XM1PbaZglEm8E2M4u4s4sqFQQampkKjFwC3Smn+zBNMv/UAAA2GcfAfOE0yPMS0LgV3I= X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 757487.55087.bm@smtp109.mail.ir2.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: MgKNA30VM1lUjNkoak3L_AXARjl8SiymKGL.zNl_ZBHJrT8 ixsGnDx48lp7VhebjTvDskE8e8vjbgX96Ip9CnWgOHOuz3ZW25ToBMZItlof g2NOCUcPscuFctTezuOrpDgneZZfQ0uTHHDtdO2jzxiDM5.IilzickBLJu2n NutRTK9Ev1Cs6KAFndue8F_M06WbiC9lQYP5XZlHAV5WSgBRokcsn27E8xzZ Ec3YcO.IoG.e.ZCX6sihs5w5BDyxHbx1i4X6._Xe21OUqLHBnCuDcMWyjubt toN8yrJMSnEEemk4qinOSGGiV8XTmcQIsA_hcilH83UZ56VeosUH9MowRKnn 5d9gHaJsXiYKtBvvfFl_I896sZwHHLW9FThKecSUG5QBN3NeMZ_YwK0mTWi8 B8t7JE4AboME- X-Yahoo-SMTP: mX392iiswBAeJNdO_s.EW62LZDJR Received: from camibar.emorras.eu (emorrasg@85.219.45.252 with plain) by smtp109.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 09 Mar 2013 09:53:46 +0000 UTC Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2013 10:54:00 +0100 From: Eduardo Morras To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to know % of read file in cat? Message-Id: <20130309105400.b181e12aa222502974715a1b@yahoo.es> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.3.0 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Mar 2013 09:53:55 -0000 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. --- --- Eduardo Morras