Pipe Viewer
A terminal tool, pv, that shows progress, throughput and time remaining for data in a pipeline.
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About Pipe Viewer
pv is used like cat in a shell pipeline and shows how quickly data is moving, how long it has taken, how close it is to completion and an estimate of the time left. Rate limits, error handling, buffer size and cache behaviour can all be adjusted.
Several pv instances can show progress at different points of one pipeline with --cursor. The --watchfd mode shows the progress of another process through its open files, and --monitor runs a command and tracks its input and output. Packages are offered for Debian and Enterprise Linux.
Strengths
- Progress bar and ETA for any pipeline
- Can watch file progress of an already running process
- Adjustable transfer rate limits
- Actively released, with Debian and RPM packages
Limitations
- Terminal only
- Size and ETA estimates need a known input size
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree software with no paid tier.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- Andrew Wood
- Platforms
- Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Seeing progress of long copies, compressions and database dumps in the terminal
- Categories
- System monitoring, CLI tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Pipe Viewer
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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.
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GNU Tar
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pigz
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Axel
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