Thank you for all the feedback about pv (and bar). I shall close this bugreport and I won't upload bar. Best regards, Georges. Don Armstrong a écrit : > On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > > Don Armstrong a écrit : > > > [as a handfull of other vigilant developers] > > > How does this [bar] differ from pv? > > > > I used Michael Peek's bar for a few years because I never heard > > about pv. Thank you for this notice. > > No problem.[1] > > > Is pv able to do the same? for example how can I use pv to monitor the > > transfer which is done by modifying a command such as: > > > > dd if=someImageFile of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-TheNiceStick_0878101B77D1D977-0:0 > > pv someImageFile > /dev/disk/by-id/usb-TheNiceStick_0878101B77D1D977-0:0 > > if you wanted to use dd, you'd do something like: > > pv someImageFile | dd of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-TheNiceStick_0878101B77D1D977-0:0 > > You could also use dcfldd: > > dcfldd if=someImageFile of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-TheNiceStick_0878101B77D1D977-0:0 > > or a more complicated example with pv and dd > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=500 | pv -s 500m -N dd | gzip - | pv -cN gzip > /dev/null > > > Don Armstrong > > 1: I don't have an opinion on whether you should or shouldn't package > bar, so long as if you do, you make it obvious why you'd use it > instead of pv. > -- > When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I > realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked > Him to forgive me. > -- Emo Philips. > > http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu > -- Georges KHAZNADAR et Jocelyne FOURNIER 22 rue des mouettes, 59240 Dunkerque France. Téléphone +33 (0)3 28 29 17 70
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