Bug#171622: ITP: pv -- Terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:46:03PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:

> Cédric Delfosse wrote:
> > PS: maybe it should be called pipe-viewer or pipeviewer ?
> 
> There's nothing wrong with short names, especially if they get typed a
> lot like it seems this could be.
> 
> How does the program know how much data is destined to go through the
> pipeline? You said it could tell how near it was to completion.

According to the example at the URL given:

http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

It will display a completion estimate for pipelines where one end is a file,
and according to the man page:

http://www.ivarch.com/programs/quickref/pv.shtml

it is also possible to specify the expected size manually.  In other cases,
it cannot guess the size.

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 - mdz