Copy with a progress bar

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Copy with a progress bar

Post by thockman » Fri May 21, 2010 10:26 am

Use pv to display a progress bar. Useful to see the throughput of a file copy.

$ cat source/file.img | pv -s 100g -p -e -r > destination/file.img
[ 25MB/s] [==========> ] 13% ETA 0:54:35

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