[ale] Neat code clip: cp progress bar

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

On 03/05/2010 09:04 AM, Brandon Wood wrote:
> I saw this post on Hacker News today and thought that it deserved to be
> shared:

strace? That's intense. 'rsync -P' works for me.

For many commands that don't have a progress bar, pv is a great help.
For example, I might do 'zcat afile.gz | pv > afile' to monitor how
quickly a file is decompressing.

http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

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All the best,
Brian Pitts