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Monitoring progress of a big copy
Sometimes you want to know how fast some files are copying across your netcat. tar -v isn't helpful if you have lots of small files as you can't really tell how fast it's going anywhat.
Up until now I've install Chris Lightfoot's cwp, but I've now found something that's built into debian.
Unfortunately it has a terrible name, which is why nobody has found it before. This is pv.
Last updated: 10:27, 20 Feb 2008 [ /techie/blog/software/linux ] Link..