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"The first post in this series is going to be about not so well known Unix program called Pipe Viewer or pv for short. Pipe viewer is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion."
A Unix Utility You Should Know About: Pipe Viewer - good coders code, great reuse
