Pv

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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. See "man ./doc/quickref.1", or "man pv" after installation.

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

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

Compilation

If this is not a packaged release, first run "./generate.sh".

To compile the package, type "sh ./configure", which should generate a Makefile for your system. You may then type "make" to build everything. Note that GNU make is required; this may be installed as gmake on some systems, so if typing "make" gives an error, try "gmake" instead.

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

Author and acknowledgements

This package is copyright 2023 Andrew Wood, and is being distributed under the terms of the Artistic License 2.0. For more details of this license, see the file "doc/COPYING".

Report bugs in pv using the contact form linked from the home page, or though the project issue tracker.

The pv home page is at:

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

The latest version can always be found here.

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

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