Re:Why do people use Unix for servers? (Score 1)

For example, try tracking the progress of a long-lived pipe command. There's a LOT of value to knowing whether you should sit and wait for a command to finish, or if you should go read slashdot for ten minutes while it's working.

So write an 'xpipe' application which executes a command pipe, and notifies you when each application exits, optionally with a popup message. Modify an existing shell to do this.

Pull your finger out man!

I just stick xclock at the end of a long pipeline, so I can piss off and do something else.