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I can't believe these aren't available in my package manager

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[โ€“] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm also a fan of baud. I really should alias cat to baud -400 cat or thereabouts.

Bonus: run baud -800 bat --color=always and you get that wonderful old dot matrix printer feeling of the cursor just stopping whenever the color codes are being processed.

[โ€“] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

I sometimes use pv for that:

Shell pipeline element to meter data passing through