On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 09:57:44AM -0400, Jamon Camisso wrote: > I'll add 'pv' to the list. Great way to watch progress if you are > using zcat/cat to pipe something somewhere. > > For example, got a database dump? 'cat db.sql | pv | yoursqlengine'
If you do that, pv does NOT know how big the input is, and you are wasting a pipe and a process. 'pv db.sql | yoursqlengine' on the other hand would work great. > You get a nice progress bar and estimation of time to complete, > autoscaling speed. Lots of other options too. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
