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stdu 1.0.0 release

I use output redirection and piping quite a bit when I'm using my computer. Oftentimes I just cat and redirect the output instead of using cp or dd. I don't remember when I'd have done grep [foo-query] [bar-file], I always do cat [bar-file] | grep [foo-query]. I might end up writing more, but I don't have to remember as much syntax.

What I was missing was some kind of progress bar which for example dd can offer. That's why I wrote stdu (standing for STDIN data usage, obviously), a program that prints out the amount of data piped to its STDIN. You can find its source on my website:

=> https://jorl.fi/git/stdu

or you can clone it by doing

git clone "https://jorl.fi/git/stdu.git"

cat foo | stdu --forward | /dev/sdb1`