A related tool, except for monitoring I/O, is Progress [1]. Imagine that behind the scenes it does something like lsof every second (-m flag) and tracks the pr

A related tool, except for monitoring I/O, is Progress [1]. Imagine that behind the scenes it does something like lsof every second (-m flag) and tracks the progress of any file open by the specified process(es) (-c or -a flags). Works great for copying and downloading, doesn't work for rewriting in-place. This reminds me that I wanted to modify my GNU Screen hardstatus to call it. [1] https://github.com/Xfennec/progress https://github.com/Xfennec/progress