pv (a pipeline progress indicator) in main?

[Sean Feole]

On 4/27/22 7:05 AM, Ian Bruntlett wrote:
> 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: $1
> /usr/bin/time -f "%E mins:secs " tar --checkpoint=4000 
> --checkpoint-action=ttyout='%{%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S}t (%d sec): #%u, 
> %T%*\r' -czf  "$@"
+1 Ian,   'pv' is wonderful when comparing it to what is required for 
time to output something similar.

-sfeole
>
> OTOH, using pv is a lot simpler.
>
> BW,
>
> Ian
>
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