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How to use the pv command

Overview

In this Linux tip, we’re going to take a look at the pv (pipe viewer) command that can provide some reassuring visual feedback when some process you will be running might take a long time to complete. In this simple example, everything will run very quickly, but this kind of output for long-running commands will let you know that the process isn’t “hanging” and that, instead, progress is being made.

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