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Megabuffer 2.0
Megabuffer is a POSIX-compatible utility that copies its standard input to its standard output through a very large buffer and periodically prints its progress to standard error. This is useful if you are piping a bursty output, such as from a compressor, into a program that reads its input slowly but operates most efficiently if it never has to wait for input, such as netcat or ssh. The size of the buffer (in bytes) is specified on the command line. An example use case:
Megabuffer prints status like this: [#######| |###################################] 4.89 MiB 265 KiB/s The Download Megabuffer 2.0, pre-compiled for Linux: i386 x86_64 Download Megabuffer 2.0, pre-compiled for Mac OS X Snow Leopard: universal Download Megabuffer source code (public domain) This site is hosted by DreamHost Web Hosting. |
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