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pipemeter

Monitor data transfer speed between input and output streams

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Shows speed of data moving from input to output

Commands

pipemeter

Examples

show download speed while copying a file$ cat largefile.iso | pipemeter > /tmp/copy.iso
watch transfer speed of data through a pipe$ dd if=/dev/zero | pipemeter | dd of=/dev/null
display speed while compressing files$ tar czf - directory/ | pipemeter > backup.tar.gz
monitor throughput when extracting a large archive$ cat backup.tar.gz | pipemeter | tar xz
check upload speed during network transfer$ pipemeter < input.bin | nc remote.host 1234