Alternatives to Pipe Viewer
A terminal tool, pv, that shows progress, throughput and time remaining for data in a pipeline. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Pipe Viewer
A terminal tool, pv, that shows progress, throughput and time remaining for data in a pipeline.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Pipe Viewer.
progress
A small command that shows the progress of running cp, mv, dd, tar and similar coreutils commands.
progress shows estimated time and throughput for already running cp, mv, dd and tar commands instead of sitting in a pipeline, and it only tracks a fixed set of commands.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
xcp
A partial clone of the Unix cp command with progress feedback and optimisations for some copy tasks.
GNU Parallel
A command-line utility that runs shell commands and scripts in parallel across CPU cores or machines.
GNU Coreutils
The core GNU file, shell and text utilities, including ls, cp, mv and sort.
GNU Tar
The GNU command-line tool for creating, extracting, updating and listing tar archives.
pigz
A parallel implementation of gzip that uses multiple CPU cores to compress data faster.
Axel
Lightweight command-line download accelerator that fetches one file over several connections at once.
