I don't believe it's that. On macOS Monterey: $ which pv pv not found I've been using Unixes of various flavours since the 1980s and had never heard of it

I don't believe it's that. On macOS Monterey: $ which pv pv not found I've been using Unixes of various flavours since the 1980s and had never heard of it until I read this article. It's certainly more obscure to me – as in not discoverable at all – than dd status=progress. Apparently I've been slumming it by watching long jobs using Activity Monitor on macOS.