pipe viewer

[billium]

I would like to have pipe viewer for monitoring dd.  As it is no longer a standard extension I will investigate making an extension.  Before I do, I was wondering why it was dropped.  Is it for a technical reason or nobody had any use for it?
Thanks.

[Juanito]

You could download it from here:

http://tinycorelinux.net/4.x/x86/tcz/pv.tcz

..try it out and, if it works, it can be copied to the current repo.

[andyj]

Isn't that what "tee" is for?

[billium]

Thanks very much for that Juanito, works great for me.
X86 up-to-date tinycore.

Looking at what tee does, it copies the o/p, whereas pv shows the progress through a pipe.
I did not know about tee and have never tried it. Tee also slows down the pipe, from what I have just read.

[andyj]

Tee lets you see the pipe contents, which is what I was thinking you wanted. You can use it to get clever by tee'ing to a fifo then having another program read the fifo and do stuff, or just watch stuff go by while you are saving a log too.

[Juanito]

pv copied to 7.x x86 repo