Linux Commands I Never Knew Existed: Pipe Viewer
Aug 06, 2008, 14:30 (0 Talkback[s])
"And here is a quick example, this command tar’s up a
directory and send the output to gzip, showing a rate of
223MB/s:
"user@slashzero-desktop:/home$ tar zcf - user | pv /bin/gzip
> /tmp/backup.tar.gz
59.7kB 0:00:00 [ 223MB/s]
[===========================================>] 100%
Incredibly useful stuff.
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