Pipe Viewer is described as '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' and is an app. There are 1 alternatives to Pipe Viewer for Linux. The best Pipe Viewer alternative is Progress, which is both free and Open Source.
This tool looks for coreutils basic commands (cp, mv, dd, tar, gzip/gunzip, cat, ...) currently running on your system and displays the percentage of copied data. It can now also display an estimated throughput (using -w flag).
