Davide Brini wrote: > [email protected] wrote: > > Just a suggestion that it woild be good > > idea to have speed limit in dd tool > > so one can use it to for example > > spare network bandwidth when copying file > > ... > > You can use a tool named "pv" (available in all the distros I've worked > with) to put a bandwidth limit on any operation that involves streams or > pipes, just insert it where you want the throttling to happen, eg > > dd if=file | pv --rate-limit 1m | nc etc.
And for more network centric things there is 'trickle' too which can also throttle bandwidth across several different parallel connections. dd if=file | trickle -s -u 20 nc ... Bob
