Hello Michael, Michael Peek a écrit : > I had no idea that pv existed. I took a look at it, and they are > very similar. > > There are a few things that bar offers over pv: > - ANSI color support > - Configurable progress bar characters In the manpage I only found the option display-twiddle about it; are there other options for configuring characters? > - Configurable I/O select() timeout > - Ability to use configuration file(s) This feature is great. > - Displaying of additional blocks of text read from a file during > I/O - think "information to display to the user during file > installation" - that are updated automatically throughout the I/O > process (version 1.11.0, yet to be released) That one will be great too. The version which I can package now is 1.10.9 > > But there are also features in pv that bar lacks: > -n, --numeric - Numeric output suitable for piping to dialog This feature may be important, I planned to use a regexp filter to parse bar's output, configuring bar to output easier parsed data would be great. > -W, --wait - Wait until the first byte has been received before > printing anything ... and before deciding that the input stream is closed. This feature can be approximately reached by setting a long timeout without modifying bar's source. > -l, --line-mode - Instead of counting bytes, count lines > -R, --remote - Communicate with another instance of pv to modify it's state > > For what it's worth, > > Michael Peek I shall reopen the ITP bug and upload the package. Best regards, Georges.
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature