Pipe Viewer - monitor the progress of data through a pipe. https://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

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README.md

Introduction

This is the README for pv ("Pipe Viewer"), 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.

Documentation

A manual page is included in this distribution ("man pv"). Before installation, it is in "docs/pv.1".

Changes are listed in "docs/NEWS.md". The to-do list is "docs/TODO.md".

Developers and translators, please see "docs/DEVELOPERS.md".

Compilation

To compile the package, type "sh ./configure", which should generate a Makefile for your system. You may then type "make" to build everything, and "make install" to install it.

See the file "docs/INSTALL" for more about the configure script.

If this is not a packaged release, you will need the GNU build system tools (autoconf, aclocal, autopoint, automake) and the gettext development tools. You can then run "autoreconf -is" to generate the "configure" script.

Copyright, bug reporting, and acknowledgements

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html.

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License, version 3, in "docs/COPYING". If not, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html.

Please report any bugs to pv@ivarch.com, or use the issue tracker linked from the pv home page.

The pv home page is at:

https://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml

The latest version can always be found here.

Please see "docs/ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.md" for a list of contributors.