From: Mischa POSLAWSKY <perl@shiar.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2022 23:29:35 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: document statistics signaling
X-Git-Tag: v1.10~19
X-Git-Url: http://git.shiar.nl/barcat.git/commitdiff_plain/261e0bd8de1f84ceeaa417c9aed73c9862419416

document statistics signaling

Nice to know without reading source code or somehow guessing similarity to
ping.
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diff --git a/barcat b/barcat
index fabc9a5..3eb004e 100755
--- a/barcat
+++ b/barcat
@@ -648,6 +648,10 @@ Unspecified, block fill glyphs U+2581-2588 will be used.
 
 Total statistics after all data.
 
+While processing (possibly a neverending pipe),
+intermediate results are also shown on signal I<SIGINFO> if available (control+t on BSDs)
+or I<SIGQUIT> otherwise (ctrl+\ on linux).
+
 =item -u, --unmodified
 
 Do not reformat values, keeping leading whitespace.