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Bug#593260: ITP: bar -- Show information about a data transfer



Dropped debian-devel from the Cc list.

On ma, 2010-08-16 at 21:57 +0200, Georges Khaznadar wrote:
> with bar, the replacement would be:
> bar -s 4G -if someImageFile -of /dev/disk/by-id/usb-TheNiceStick_0878101B77D1D977-0:0

pv -petrb someImageFile > /dev/disk/...

(Or pipe to sudo dd of=/dev/disk/... if that's better for you,
permissionwise.)

If pv can't figure out the size of the image file, add "-s 4G".

I haven't tried bar, but from the description it looks very similar to
pv. As far as I care, both are welcome in Debian, but sometimes it is
sensible to ask if duplicate tools to do the same thing are a good idea.




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