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What's a handy terminal command you use often? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

pv (Pipe Viewer) is a command line tool to view verbose information about data streamed/piped through it. The data can be of any source like files, block devices, network streams etc. It shows the amount of data passed through, time running, progress bar, percentage and the estimated completion time.