Pipe Viewer: Unix terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline

Pipe Viewer screenshot

http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml


From the Pipe Viewer website:

pv – Pipe Viewer – is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline.
It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of
how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an
estimate of how long it will be until completion.

Example from this blog post:

$ pv access.log | gzip > access.log.gz
611MB 0:00:11 [58.3MB/s] [=>      ] 15% ETA 0:00:59

Vertical Drop Heroes HD: My previous gaming obsession

Vertical Drop Heroes HD logo & masthead

http://nerdook-productions.com/


Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/311480/
GOG (DRM Free): http://www.gog.com/game/vertical_drop_heroes_hd

I played close to 15 hours of this over the last couple of weeks. It definitely has many warts, but at $2.79 during the holiday sale, it’s worth a look. This is the game I would load up for 20 minutes of mindless fun.