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pipebench

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
EXAMPLES
A number to brag to your friends about$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=80k count=60k 2> /dev/null | pipebench -q >/dev/nullBUGS
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR

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NAME

pipebench - Shows speed of stdin/stdout communication

SYNOPSIS

pipebench [ -ehqQIoru ] [ -s file | -S file ] [ -b bufsize ]

DESCRIPTION

Measures the speed of stdin/stdout communication.

OPTIONS

	-h		Displays a help message and exits.
	-e		If an error occurs, exit (breaking the pipe between stdin and stdout. By default an error message is printed to stderr and the program continues.
	-q		Only show summary stats.
	-Q		Don’t show running speed or summary stats. Same as -q -o. Can be used to play with buffer size.
	-o		Don’t show summary.

-b bufsize

Use this buffer size, in bytes.

-r

Just show raw speed, no fancy stuff. And no summary.

-s file

Write status to file instead of stderr.

-S file

Write status to file instead of stderr.

	-I		Use 1kB = 1000B, instead of the default 1024B.
	-u		Don’t convert to units (kilo, Mega, etc...)

EXAMPLES

Benchmark and show progress of backup
# (cd /home/; tar cf - .) | pipebench | (cd /mnt/backup/; tar xf -)

A number to brag to your friends about$ dd if=/dev/zero bs=80k count=60k 2> /dev/null | pipebench -q >/dev/nullBUGS

No known bugs... yet.

SEE ALSO

dd(1) , cat(1)

AUTHOR

Pipebench was written by Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>

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