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• By jdblair 2019-12-317:161 reply

  I've been using my "dots" script for over 10 years to give me feedback that a long task (like un-tarring a big source tree) is still running, without flooding the terminal with text. I pipe the "verbose" output of a command into the script: tar xvfz kernel.tar.gz | dots

  #!/usr/bin/perl

  $| = 1; $i = 0;

  if ($#ARGV < 0) { $number = 1000; } else { $number = shift(@ARGV); }

  while (<STDIN>) { print '.' unless ($i % $number); $i++; }

  print "\n";

  By wruza 2019-12-319:461 reply

  See also pv.

  https://linux.die.net/man/1/pv

  By isp 2019-12-3112:01

  tl;dr - The flag for pv in this case is --line-mode (-l).

  So, if you have a command that produces lots of lines of output (e.g., for demo purposes, "yes" - which literally floods the terminal with lines):

    yes | pv -l >/dev/null
  

  Example progress output, showing lines processed (total & rate):

    405M 0:00:03 [ 140M/s] [   <=>     ]

• By captn3m0 2019-12-317:13

  I use snippy as my snippet manager. Keep them version controlled in ~/.snippy and activate it with dmenu: https://gist.github.com/coderofsalvation/46549e3788ade2f3a93...

  I have another one that splits AAX files from Audible by chapters: https://github.com/captn3m0/Scripts/blob/master/split-audio-... (After stripping the DRM)

  ansi2html converts terminal output to HTML: https://github.com/captn3m0/Scripts/blob/master/ansi2html.sh

  dydns.sh sets up a dynamic DNS entry on CloudFlare against my current local IP address. https://github.com/captn3m0/Scripts/blob/master/dydns.sh

  emojify converts emoji shortcodes to emojies on the command line: https://github.com/captn3m0/Scripts/blob/master/emojify

  vtt2srt: convert vtt subtitle files to SRT https://github.com/captn3m0/Scripts/blob/master/vtt2srt

• By dmoreno 2019-12-319:521 reply

  Mine watches for changes in a directory and runs a command on any save change. I use it a lot for Test Driven Development. Modify source code, save and automatically on a terminal it runs `make test` or similar.

  https://gist.github.com/davidmoreno/c049e922e41aaa94e18955b9...

  By 0xdeadb00f 2020-01-0213:331 reply

  Have you heard of wendy[1]?

  Might be useful, I'm not entirely sure if it suits your case because my experience with inotify is limited to playing around with it and nothing substantial coming from it.

  1: http://z3bra.org/wendy/ (Author's blog post: http://blog.z3bra.org/2015/03/under-wendys-dress.html)

  By jumpm4n 2020-01-0316:23

  Another alternative is the entr command - https://www.systutorials.com/docs/linux/man/1-entr/