manpage(pipebench)(1)(18th Apr, 2003)(pipebench)()

manpagename(pipebench)(Shows speed of stdin/stdout communication)

manpagesynopsis()
    bf(pipebench) [ -ehqQIoru ] [ -s em(file) | -S em(file) ] 
	[ -b em(bufsize) ]

manpagedescription()
    Measures the speed of stdin/stdout communication.

manpageoptions()

startdit()

    dit(-h) Displays a help message and exits.
    dit(-e) If an error occurs, exit (breaking the pipe between stdin and
	stdout. By default an error message is printed to stderr and the
	program continues.
    dit(-q) Only show summary stats.
    dit(-Q) Don't show running speed or summary stats. Same as -q -o. Can be
	used to play with buffer size.
    dit(-o) Don't show summary.
    dit(-b em(bufsize)) Use this buffer size, in bytes.
    dit(-r) Just show raw speed, no fancy stuff. And no summary.
    dit(-s em(file)) Write status to em(file) instead of stderr.
    dit(-S em(file)) Write status to em(file) instead of stderr.
    dit(-I) Use 1kB = 1000B, instead of the default 1024B.
    dit(-u) Don't convet to units (kilo, Mega, etc...)

manpagesection(EXAMPLES)
   bf(Benchmark and show progress of backup) nl()
   # (cd /home/; tar cf - .) | pipebench | (cd /mnt/backup/; tar xf -) nl()

nsubsect()
   bf(A number to brag to your friends about) nl()
   $ dd if=/dev/zero bs=80k count=60k 2> /dev/null | ./pipebench -q > /dev/null

manpagebugs()
    No known bugs... yet.

manpageseealso()
    bf(dd(1)), bf(cat(1))

manpageauthor()
    Pipebench was written by Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>