Bar

[Highland]

This may not be a big request or it might be a massive one. I can't quite tell yet.

I have several scripts that could benefit from the bar project. In fact, ASL might as well. They even have a handy RPM. There's just one catch... it requires glibc 2.7, whereas 2.5 is the standard for el5. Some sites mentioned that el5.1 wouldn't do it (fixed in 5.2) and it seems to have had a chilling effect on adding 2.7.

Is it possible to get 2.7 maybe in testing or bleeding, along with bar?

[breun]

If you're transferring data through a pipe you could maybe use pv. It's available from the EPEL repository.

# yum info pv
(...)
Name : pv
Arch : x86_64
Version : 0.9.9
Release : 1.el5
Size : 34 k
Repo : epel
Summary : A tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline
URL : http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml
License : Artistic
Description: PV ("Pipe Viewer") is a 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.

The author even has a yum repository for his projects: http://www.ivarch.com/programs/yum.shtml

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utili ... pe-viewer/ has a couple of examples of using pv.