Re: [Lzip-bug] Feature request / support !

[Matias Fonzo]

Hi Antonio :-)

On Wed, 19 Jul 2017 17:12:41 +0200
Antonio Diaz Diaz <address@hidden> wrote:
> Daniel Baumann wrote:
> >> Decompression is faster than compression  
> >
> > true; however, i regularly decompress rather large files (>50GB) for
> > which it would be nice to have a progress bar. for the moment i'm
> > cat'ing them through pv.  
> 
> Interesting. I didn't know.
> 
> [..]
> 
> Do you have any suggestions about what option name to use and how to 
> achieve the goal above (maybe writing the progress info directly to
> the controlling terminal to avoid mangling stderr)? Thanks.

fsck(8) from e2fsck progs have:

-C [  fd  ]
  Display completion/progress bars for those filesystem
checkers (currently only for ext2 and ext3) which support them.   Fsck
will manage the filesystem  checkers  so  that only  one  of them will
display a progress bar at a time.  GUI front-ends may specify a file
descriptor fd, in which case the progress bar information will be sent
to that file descriptor.

> [..]

Regards,
Matías

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