I've been a professional C, Perl, PHP and Python developer.
I'm an ex-sysadmin from the late 20th century.
These days I do more Javascript and CSS and whatnot, and promote UX and accessibility.
We also have the pv command to view progress through pipes. It doesn't do the same kind of magic to find file sizes that this tool does, but it works without /proc and is pretty neat.
We also have the
pvcommand to view progress through pipes. It doesn't do the same kind of magic to find file sizes that this tool does, but it works without/procand is pretty neat.It is also fairly nice, and there is the progress utility that works using the same mechanism also. But I wanted some fun and a different UX :)