"When running processes from Terminal/the shell, the old Unix status control character finally works in 10.4. This is useful for seeing what your process is up to. While waiting for a command to complete, press control-T to see load, command running, pid, status, and user and system CPU time used:"
Friday, July 22, 2005
macosxhints - 10.4: Get status of foreground jobs with ^T:
