Re: dealing with verbose programs

[Jim Meyering]

Ben Pfaff <address@hidden> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
>> Ha!  I wrote the following a few weeks ago, thinking some day
>> I'd write something more involved.  I'm not very happy with it,
>> because, at least with coreutils, it runs for too long without
>> giving any progress indicator.
>
> You could use "tee" to display the program's output as it runs,
> then append the diff when it has completed.

Yes, but the point of my exercise was to avoid the voluminous output.