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pv – monitor the progress of data through a pipe

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Lasse Osterild

As the title says, this tool will let you monitor pipe throughput, something which I find very valuable at times, ie. how fast was my tar or cpio to another host or filesystem, or less useful like how fast does … Continue reading →

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Separating a running job from the shell

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Lasse Osterild

There’s a little-known, but oh so useful, bash builtin called disown – We’ve all started a job that ends up taking way longer than anticipated, now you really wish you had backgrounded it to begin with, or had used Screen. … Continue reading →

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