Quick directions:
./configure
make
make install
To build an rpm, use
rpmbuild -tb pipemeter-x.x.x.tar.gz
This is pipemeter. It is a silly litte program that tells you how fast things are moving through its stdin -> stdout. I did it so that when I'm doing a "wannabe ghost" like this:
tar cf - | nc new.faster.ubermachine 9999
I can tell how fast its going by now doing
tar cf - | pipemeter | nc new.faster.ubermachine 9999
And on the other end instead of
nc -l 9999 | tar xf -
now
nc -l 9999 | pipemeter | tar xf -
Thanks to Brian Wirch, it also has a progressmeter. Example:
pipemeter -f /usr/src/linux-2.4.18.tar.bz2 | bzcat | tar xf -
Produces a nice status of the unbzipping of the kernel. A future hope is to have a way to run two or more pipemeters at once. Currently such a thing will cause them to overwrite eachother.
Another hope is to allow a pipemeter to be running, and have its output come out in some sort of ncurses window.
Clint Byrum <cbyrum@spamaps.org>