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The pipe viewer pv: https://ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml https://ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml Great way to give you a progress bar on a long-running process from the command line. entr is useful for doing stuff on file change: http://www.entrproject.org/ http://www.entrproject.org/ GNU parallel is like xargs, but in parallel: https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/ https://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/