A cron wrapper to make things nicer. Ref page also includes pointers to other cron wrappers, a considerate touch.

pv - Pipe Viewer - is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

Screen(1) is great except for having to scroll with the keyboard instead of the mouse. Here's how.

pv - Pipe Viewer - is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

Cronic is a shell script to help control the most annoying feature of cron: unwanted emailed output, or "cram" (cron spam).

This is version 1.0 of the unofficial "Unix Administration Horror Story
Summary". This is a summary of the "Unix Administration Horror Stories"
thread which was seen in comp.unix.admin in October '92.

>Homebrewに「tap」というコマンドが追加されました。このコマンドを使う事で、公式以外でフォーミュラを公開していたリポジトリをhomebrewの中に取り込むことができ、$ brewコマンドで扱えるようになります。

detailed, real-world explanation of rsync options