Turn lines into dots.
Sometimes a command produces a lot of output that you don't care about, but you still want some vague indication of its progress.
Grab a binary from the releases page, or build it yourself:
make && make install
$ program-that-makes-a-lot-of-lines | dots
..............
Pass an arg to dots and it will be used instead of .:
build | dots 💩
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I wrote this in Go because I've never written anything in Go before, and interpreter startup time has been bugging me recently. It even seems to work!