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Dec 13, 2019 at 19:41 comment added sherrellbc Has pv changed in recent years? Now something like pv file0 > file1 shows ETA, transfer speed, time elapsed, a progress bar, and total bytes transferred.
Apr 25, 2018 at 18:51 comment added sudo Of you want speed, amount copied, % copied, time, and ETA: cat $1 | pv -a -r -b -p -e -s $(stat --printf="%s" $1) > $2 Note that pv will slow it down if you have very fast disks.
Oct 25, 2015 at 12:27 history edited Marco CC BY-SA 3.0
Former edit made the code fail on Solaris, hence this clarification
Oct 24, 2015 at 20:27 history edited muru CC BY-SA 3.0
the default input and output of tar is stdin/stdout, and -C can do the job more safely
Oct 4, 2015 at 18:35 comment added Marco @Skaperen I don't know vbuf. But as it seems it is in Debian unstable at the moment and therefore often not available on Servers which are usually running Debian stable.
Oct 4, 2015 at 10:56 comment added Skaperen vbuf (debian, ubuntu) is a good bit faster than pv, probably because of its virtual ring buffer
Mar 18, 2015 at 22:20 review Suggested edits
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Dec 5, 2014 at 23:40 comment added AlexLordThorsen --info=progress2 gives you directory level progress statistics.
May 11, 2014 at 15:25 comment added Jan Fabry This will give you transfer speed, but not ETA, because pv doesn't know how much data will come through the pipe. You can specify this using -s. E.g. first do du -sh sourceDirectory to get a (rough) idea, and then pass it to pv, like this: pv -s 100m.
Feb 17, 2013 at 15:10 history edited Marco CC BY-SA 3.0
Add rsync option
Feb 17, 2013 at 14:13 history answered Marco CC BY-SA 3.0