JP Mens on Nostr: One of the oldest tools in my Unix toolbox is a one-liner I named pv(1) which ...
One of the oldest tools in my Unix toolbox is a one-liner I named pv(1) which contains
tbl “$@“ | nroff -man | less -R
I’ve no idea why it has that name.
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