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pv — Monitor the progress of data through a pipe. More information: <https://manned.org/pv>.

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Problem

How to use the pv command: Monitor the progress of data through a pipe. More information: <https://manned.org/pv>.

Solution

pv — Monitor the progress of data through a pipe. More information: <https://manned.org/pv>.

Print the contents of the file and display a progress bar:
pv {{path/to/file}}


Measure the speed and amount of data flow between pipes (--size is optional):
{{command1}} | pv {{[-s|--size]}} {{expected_amount_of_data_for_eta}} | {{command2}}


Filter a file, see both progress and amount of output data:
pv {{[-cN|--cursor --name]}} in {{path/to/file.txt}} | grep {{pattern}} | pv {{[-cN|--cursor --name]}} out > {{path/to/filtered_file.txt}}


Attach to an already running process and see its file reading progress:
pv {{[-d|--watchfd]}} {{PID}}


Read an erroneous file, skip errors as dd conv=sync,noerror would:
pv {{[-EE|--skip-errors --skip-errors]}} {{path/to/faulty_media}} > {{path/to/image.img}}


Stop reading after reading specified amount of data, rate limit to 1K/s:
pv {{[-L|--rate-limit]}} {{1K}} {{[-S|--stop-at-size]}} {{maximum_file_size_to_be_read}}


Calculate hash (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, etc) of a large file and show progress:
pv {{path/to/file}} | {{sha256sum}}

Code Snippets

Print the contents of the file and display a progress bar

pv {{path/to/file}}

Measure the speed and amount of data flow between pipes (`--size` is optional)

{{command1}} | pv {{[-s|--size]}} {{expected_amount_of_data_for_eta}} | {{command2}}

Filter a file, see both progress and amount of output data

pv {{[-cN|--cursor --name]}} in {{path/to/file.txt}} | grep {{pattern}} | pv {{[-cN|--cursor --name]}} out > {{path/to/filtered_file.txt}}

Attach to an already running process and see its file reading progress

pv {{[-d|--watchfd]}} {{PID}}

Read an erroneous file, skip errors as `dd conv=sync,noerror` would

pv {{[-EE|--skip-errors --skip-errors]}} {{path/to/faulty_media}} > {{path/to/image.img}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/pv

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