or better try pipe viewer. it seems less buggy (kill -SIGUSR1 $PIDOFTHROTTLE
doesn't work for me) , has realtime progress and there is a homepage and
maintainer ( http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml )
linux-rqru:/tmp # cat /tmp/pv-wrapper
#!/bin/bash
pv -L 1000 | "$@"
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mhh - interesting question..
what about combining the power of throttle (
http://linux.die.net/man/1/throttle ) or similar tools (there are some more
like this) with rsync ?
via this hint: http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2006-February/014623.html i
got a clue how to combine rsync and