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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: 0.209s | source
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6c696e7578 ◴[20 Nov 24 21:56 UTC] No.42198530[source]▶
A little more typing, but I find dd present on most systems already, so I tend to do this:

  tar ... | dd status=progress | ...
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1. fulafel ◴[21 Nov 24 05:08 UTC] No.42201324[source]▶
That's slowish, bottlenecking disk based IO. (yes you can improve it with dd options, if you are versed in the language...)