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Transparently download from Google Drive

Google Drive is a file storage and synchronization service provided by Google which enables user cloud storage, file sharing and collaborative editing. The storage limit for the free accounts is, at the time of writing, about 5GB. If you have…

By Eugen Mihailescu | February 23, 2013 | Hacking | 21 Comments |

Monitor file (size) progress

From time to time I do several maintenance tasks that involve file copying, compressing, disk image cloning, etc. Because sometimes (in fact almost always) these administrative task involves several commands that use the output/result of each other, I cannot use…

By Eugen Mihailescu | December 30, 2012 | linux, shell | No Comments |