pv (a pipeline progress indicator) in main?

[Ian Bruntlett]

Hi Bryce,

pv looks like a really good idea to me. Kudos to Andrew Wood for his code
and to the people promoting this tool.

Using pv at the beginning of a pipe provides full information and an
estimate of time remaining. This is really useful.

Using pv to display the progress of a tar command is a little redundant.
Because tar and time can already do that for you. I ripped this out of a
script file of mine I've used in the past.

echo "$0" Running in "$PWD"
echo Creating tar file: $1
/usr/bin/time -f "%E mins:secs " tar --checkpoint=4000
--checkpoint-action=ttyout='%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t (%d sec): #%u, %T%*\r'
-czf  "$@"

OTOH, using pv is a lot simpler.

BW,

Ian

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