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+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.