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Is it against linux ethos to provide a progress indicator for running commands? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why doesn't cp have a progress bar like wget? Lately I have been dealing with rather large files in Linux. I often use commands like sed, cut, sort, uniq, awk, and ...
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Fast way to build a test file with every second listed in YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS format

I want to create a large test file with lines containg dates listed by the second, but my method is taking inordinately long... (or at least, that's how it feels :) ... 43 minutes to create only ...