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I have a very large compressed file I’m processing using grep.
zcat blah.gz | grep -e pattern | gzip -c > pattern.gz
I’d like to print something to stderr for every million or so input lines processed, just to keep track of progress. Any ideas?
Try
pv. It defaults to bytes, but there’s a switch to make it lines.