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Pipe Viewer or pv is a program for displaying the throughput of any pipe. It can be used to monitor all sorts of transfers, but for a simple copy you don't even need to pipe any other commands. Jus...
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Iizuki
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2025-12-13T11:57:57Z (9 months ago)
Update to a more sudo friendly command
- [Pipe Viewer](https://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml) or `pv` is a program for displaying the throughput of any pipe. It can be used to monitor all sorts of transfers, but for a simple copy you don't even need to pipe any other commands. Just select the file as the input and direct to your destination:
- ```commandline
$ pv source.file > destination.file- 2,53MiB 0:00:00 [ 536MiB/s] [=======================================>] 100%
- ```
- [Pipe Viewer](https://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml) or `pv` is a program for displaying the throughput of any pipe. It can be used to monitor all sorts of transfers, but for a simple copy you don't even need to pipe any other commands. Just select the file as the input and direct to your destination:
- ```commandline
- $ pv source.file --output destination.file
- 2,53MiB 0:00:00 [ 536MiB/s] [=======================================>] 100%
- ```
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by
Iizuki
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2025-10-29T07:44:00Z (11 months ago)
[Pipe Viewer](https://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml) or `pv` is a program for displaying the throughput of any pipe. It can be used to monitor all sorts of transfers, but for a simple copy you don't even need to pipe any other commands. Just select the file as the input and direct to your destination: ```commandline $ pv source.file > destination.file 2,53MiB 0:00:00 [ 536MiB/s] [=======================================>] 100% ```