count

This software is owned by The university of California, Irvine, and is not distributed under any version of the GPL. GPL is a fine series of licenses, but the owners of the software need it to be distributed under these terms.

count is a simple program for computing the lines per second and estimated time of completion when piping a series of lines into a consumer process.

Usage:

/usr/local/bin/count: [-c|-b|-e est|-n|-C listfile checkpointfile n|-p prog] [-d divisor]
-c                              means to only count lines - do not try to give a progress report
-b                              means to buffer the lines, to get accurate estimates
-s                              in buffer mode, means to stat lines and compute size for progress
-e lines                        means the user will provide an estimate of the number of lines
-n                              means no progress report will be given (IE, be a primitive "cat")
-C listfile checkpointfile n    means to read filenames from listfile,
                                write checkpoint indices to checkpointfile, and to checkpoint after every n files
-p prog                         means to run program once per input line.  "%s" in the string is replaced with the input line
-0                              means to read lines null terminated, not newline terminated
-d                              adjusts how often to report
-o                              progress output overstrikes

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