pv command in Linux

pv is a terminal-based (command-line based) tool in Linux that allows us for the monitoring of data being sent through pipe. The full form of pv command is Pipe Viewer.

pv helps the user by giving him a visual display of the following,

Time Elapsed
Completed Progress (percentage bar)
Current data transfer speed (also reffered as throughput rate)
Data Transfered
ETA (Estimated Time) (Remaining time)

For installing pv command,

debian based Operating System

$ apt-get install pv

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