Timeline for Can I watch the progress of a `sync` operation?
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| Apr 11 at 2:00 | comment | added | aggregate1166877 | @gioele Your suggestion indeed works on my system. I personally dislike complex regex for this kind of answer though because it prevents newcomers from meaningfully altering it. My approach allows people to easily chain in additional commands based on preference. There's also the issue that regex is fragile and can have hard-to-fix edge cases that aren't immediately obvious. | |
| Apr 10 at 8:06 | comment | added | gioele | The ls/while read/awk part can be replaced with a single grep invocation: grep -Po '^(?=( +\d+){9})( +\d+)' /sys/block/*/stat. | |
| Jul 12, 2024 at 22:38 | comment | added | aggregate1166877 | @einpoklum The point of a function is to save it in some initialization script such as /etc/bash.bashrc or ~/.profile. That way, you don't need to copy-paste this into your terminal every time you need it. You save the function once, and then whenever you run watchSync it'll just work™. In Bash et al. a function actually just means "custom command that isn't an application." | |
| Jul 12, 2024 at 19:44 | comment | added | einpoklum | Why make it a function, rather than just executing the contents of the function? | |
| S Nov 26, 2022 at 18:56 | history | suggested | Donatzsky | CC BY-SA 4.0 | Works with bin/sh |
| Nov 25, 2022 at 13:53 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Aug 16, 2022 at 3:21 | history | edited | aggregate1166877 | CC BY-SA 4.0 | deleted 1 character in body |
| Aug 15, 2022 at 7:52 | history | answered | aggregate1166877 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |