I also regularly use
tee to take copies of data from the middle of a complex pipeline, and I regularly pipe results into a a file, background the task, and then monitor with
tail or
tail -f.
# complex_command > output_file &
# tail -f output_file
This allows me to leave the ask running while I do other things, then come back and check on it latter. It also lets me use
ETA to estimate when tasks will finish.
Typos:
"Here's my top 5 ..." should be "Here are my top 5 ..."
"At it's simplest ..." should be "At its simplest ..."
"... a single file in to many." should be "... a single file into many." Same error occurs shortly after.
"...a work on Awk ..." should be "...a word on AWK ..."
