On Mon, 16 Aug 2010, Georges Khaznadar wrote: > Don Armstrong a écrit : > > [as a handfull of other vigilant developers] > > How does this [bar] differ from pv? > > I used Michael Peek's bar for a few years because I never heard > about pv. Thank you for this notice.
No problem.[1] > Is pv able to do the same? for example how can I use pv to monitor the > transfer which is done by modifying a command such as: > > dd if=someImageFile of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-TheNiceStick_0878101B77D1D977-0:0 pv someImageFile > /dev/disk/by-id/usb-TheNiceStick_0878101B77D1D977-0:0 if you wanted to use dd, you'd do something like: pv someImageFile | dd of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-TheNiceStick_0878101B77D1D977-0:0 You could also use dcfldd: dcfldd if=someImageFile of=/dev/disk/by-id/usb-TheNiceStick_0878101B77D1D977-0:0 or a more complicated example with pv and dd dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=500 | pv -s 500m -N dd | gzip - | pv -cN gzip > /dev/null Don Armstrong 1: I don't have an opinion on whether you should or shouldn't package bar, so long as if you do, you make it obvious why you'd use it instead of pv. -- When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. -- Emo Philips. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
