Re: dealing with verbose programs

[Jim Meyering]

Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>> Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> 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.