Monitoring mv and other quiet commands with watch and progress

mv gives you no progress output at all, which is not much fun when you are moving 100+GB of Google Takeout archives and cannot tell if anything is happening. Two tools fix this: watch and progress. With your move already running, open a second terminal and enter the following: watch progress -w This refreshes every 2 seconds and shows a live view of the running process. Progress probably needs installing first, but it is a quick job with your package manager. On Bazzite, I installed it using brew (brew install progress) This is post 57 of #100DaysToOffload. To respond on your own website, write a post which contains a link to this post - then enter the URl of your page here. Learn more about WebMentions.