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Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About

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172 points lnyan | 1 comments | 20 Nov 24 15:09 UTC | HN request time: 0.246s | source
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heinrich5991 ◴[20 Nov 24 20:08 UTC] No.42197619[source]▶
There's also `progress` which works for tools mainly operating on a single file, but unlike `pv`, you don't have to start the tool differently. It'd e.g. work nicely for the `gzip` example. Just call `progress` on a different terminal while `gzip` is running.
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1. fwip ◴[21 Nov 24 02:57 UTC] No.42200650[source]▶
pv also allows this, but you have to look up the process id manually, and pass it to the -d flag.