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Haha good point. The first time I encountered pv it was in the form of like cat your.img | pv ... > /dev/sdb and then you had to tell it what size to expect and
by IgorPartola 6y ago
Haha good point. The first time I encountered pv it was in the form of like cat your.img | pv ... > /dev/sdb and then you had to tell it what size to expect and enable it showing the progress bar, etc.
- syncsynchalt 6y agoGood ol' "Useless Use of Cat": http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html http://porkmail.org/era/unix/award.html
- Aachen 6y agoTrue, if you pipe a data stream to it, it can't tell what the size is going to be and you'd need the --size option. The progress bar is still default, though.