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		danudey on Oct 14, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How does apt render its fancy progress bar? I've been around long enough to see programs which print lots of output to stdout get a lot lot faster by piping their output to /dev/null.

fsckboy on Oct 14, 2021 [–]

I've been around long enough to hit ctrl-o to make that happen

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