Pipe Viewer

Published 05-25-2012 00:00:00

Pipe Viewer

To visualize data throughput through a pipe use Pipe Viewer tool.

$ sudo apt-get install pv

For example just replace every pipe with | pv |:

$ cat bigfile.txt | gzip -9 > /tmp/test.gz
$

```shell
$ cat bigfile.txt | pv | gzip -9 > /tmp/test.gz
  14MB 0:00:00 [22.6MB/s] [   <=>                                        ]
$