Sunday, 16 April 2017

Learning Linux - Command line tips & tricks

Learning Linux - Command line tips & tricks

This article is worth reading just to learn pv. It's a great tool I've used for years to get some info on what's going on with long rsh/scp transfers, especially over slow remote connections.
https://www.linux.com/learn/intro-to-linux/2017/4/more-unknown-linux-commands

2 comments:

  1. Robert Killingsworth heh. Yup.
    I used to google it every time but in my old age I started keeping a cheat-sheet of stuff like that.

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  2. pv is theoretically useful, but in practice I find myself using parallel --bar instead, because there are multiple files and multiple CPU cores.

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