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Pipe Viewer – A Unix Utility You Should Know About
Hi all! I'm starting a new article series here. This one is going to be about Unix utilities that you should know about. The articles will discuss one Unix program at a time. I'll try to write a good introduction to the tool and give as many examples as I can think of. The first post in this series is going to be about...
The first post in this series is going to be about a not so well known but super powerful Unix program called Pipe Viewer or pv for short. | awk '{print $1}' command returns number of bytes in current dir and it's fed as the-s parameter to pv. Another interesting example is copying large amounts of data over the network via the nc(netcat) utility that I will write about some other time.
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