Since nobody has mentioned a tip for his cache problem: I would just solve this with cron. Run it daily and just write the file at 5am then forget about it. Cou

Since nobody has mentioned a tip for his cache problem: I would just solve this with cron. Run it daily and just write the file at 5am then forget about it. Could also spawn a subshell at login to generate the file in the background This article reminds me of my shellrc which used to have a progress bar. I had it print \r{##..}, with increasing number of # after every big source (2-3 second start. Looking back I don't know how I used that daily