[jauco]

I rarely use the exact samme command multiple times. But here are some bash pipe segments I enjoy.

using pv (pipeviewer) instead of cat to get a progress bar when grepping huge files.

Using httpie instead of curl so I can remember the flags.

The power of find -exec to run commands on a lot of specific files. The nice part is you can run it without exec first to see if you have the right set of files.

If you do a loop you can echo -e “$somevar\r” and then each write will overwrite the previous line so you screen doesn’t fill up but you do get a feel for the progress (to make it nice you need to pad with spaces, google for echo carriage return to learn more)

[gaws]

> using pv (pipeviewer) instead of cat to get a progress bar when grepping huge files.

How does this work?

[jauco]

This seems to be a nice introduction:

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/linux-unix/pv-command-in-linux...

[gaws]

I'm curious about your use of `pv` with `cat` and `grep` on large files.

[rajkumarsekar]

Some great power tips here, especially love the pv + grep combo for big files.

[scrapheap]

Find's -exec option is great when you need to automate removing old backups