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pipeviewer.md

Pipeviewer tips

About

Pipeviewer is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the process of data through a pipeline.

Loading a large mysql dump

pv dump.sql | /path/to/mysql -uLOGIN -p DATABASE

Extracting a large archive

pv large-dump.zip | tar xjf -
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