On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 12:46:03PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Cédric Delfosse wrote: > > PS: maybe it should be called pipe-viewer or pipeviewer ? > > There's nothing wrong with short names, especially if they get typed a > lot like it seems this could be. > > How does the program know how much data is destined to go through the > pipeline? You said it could tell how near it was to completion.
According to the example at the URL given: http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml It will display a completion estimate for pipelines where one end is a file, and according to the man page: http://www.ivarch.com/programs/quickref/pv.shtml it is also possible to specify the expected size manually. In other cases, it cannot guess the size. -- - mdz
