Use pv as your MySQL import progress indicator
Waiting for a task to complete, can be boring. Photo: Kome 8 / Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/kome8/
There is only one relief for the pain of a long running command – a progress indicator, but commands only may or may not show their progress – and this is by design. They are good at one thing, and through regular pipes, the data …