[wlug] pv - monitor the progress of data through a pipe

Hi everyone It's not Easter, but I love finding nifty little tools... :-) While looking up stackexchange for importing gzip-compressed MySQL dumps, I came across "pv", a tool for monitoring progress through pipes. Allows you to monitor how long, e.g., the import of a database dump will take. Example import command: pv mydump.sql.gz | gunzip | mysql -u root -p <database name> You will then see something like this: 1.73GiB 0:05:26 [6.54MiB/s] [=> ] 5% ETA 1:31:51 Here is the man page for pv: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/pv.1.html -- source: https://serverfault.com/a/445130 Cheers, Peter