[juneau-lug] Re: command line progress bar

  • From: Matt Heavner <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 12:22:46 -0600

I recently came across this "useful tools" list and found it
interesting.  Several are extremely useful (xargs, screen, curl, ...)
and a few are funny (tpp -- not sure I'd actually use that, but I'm
tempted!)

http://kkovacs.eu/cool-but-obscure-unix-tools/

But many of these are along the lines of your suggestion Jamie..

Matt

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 10:03, Jamie <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been making backup images of some large partitions.  Here is a
> simple trick to monitor and estimate the remaining time on big dd copies
> using "pv" (pipe view), a command line progress indicator of data
> through a pipe.  For example,
>
> instead of:   dd if=/dev/sda1 of=/media/backup_drive/sda1_WinVista_ntfs.img
> use:
>
> pv /dev/sda1 | dd of=/media/backup_drive/sda1_WinVista_ntfs.img
>
> pv is not new, but still useful.
> http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml
> http://linux.die.net/man/1/pv
>
> --
> Browns Homepage - newest pics: Dec 2010 - http://jdb.homelinux.net
> --
> Registered Linux User No: 187845  http://counter.li.org/
>
> ------------------------------------
> The Juneau Linux Users Group -- http://www.juneau-lug.org
> This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list.
> To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the 
> word unsubscribe in the subject header.
>



-- 
Matt Heavner (505) 665-8691
Los Alamos National Lab, Scientist 3
Adjunct Prof of Physics, Univ Alaska SE
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." -Groucho Marx
------------------------------------
The Juneau Linux Users Group -- http://www.juneau-lug.org
This is the Juneau-LUG mailing list.
To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to juneau-lug-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the 
word unsubscribe in the subject header.

Other related posts:

  1. Home
  2. juneau-lug
  3. Archive
  4. 05-2011