2-Minute Linux Tips
Learn how to use a host of Linux commands in these 2-minute video tutorials from Sandra Henry-Stocker, author of the Unix as a Second Language blog.
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.
