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Command-line tool to measure how fast a file is growing?

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Mar 15, 2026333 views

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Is there a command-line tool to measure how fast a text file is growing, in units of lines/second? For small-ish files, I can do something with and , but that measures the file anew each time. Usually I want to watch either a huge log file, or a pipeline. If there was a tool that just read stdin, a…

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