Package: pv Version: 1.1.4-1.1.201004211350 Severity: minor If I pipe a file >1GiB tough pv, the display gets garbled around the 1GiB barrier, because for a slight moment the with needed to display the transfered size needs one character more than normally, so all characters afterward get shifted to the right. As the transfer continues, the value is displayed again with one less character and all characters shift one character to the left again, leaving one stray digit at the end of the line. This looks ugly since the seconds seem to consist of 3 digits.
The following command demonstrates the problem and captures the output in a log file including all escape sequences: (dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=999 ; sleep 1 ; dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1 ; sleep 1 ; dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=500 ; sleep 1) 2>/dev/null | pv -btef -s $((1500*1<<20)) >/dev/null 2>./log Replacing ^M by newlies in ./log shows the following sequence: 980MB 0:00:01 ETA 0:00:00 999MB 0:00:02 ETA 0:00:01 0,977GB 0:00:03 ETA 0:00:01 1,46GB 0:00:04 ETA 0:00:00 1,46GB 0:00:04 On sceen, the final line looks like this: 1,46GB 0:00:04 1 Looks like a 1000 vs 1024 mixup in src/pv/display.c. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.1 Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-ucs25-amd64 Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages pv depends on: ii libc6 2.7-18.26.201002221044 GNU C Library: Shared libraries pv recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
