File transfer performance display?

[John Abreau]

On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord-3s7WtUTddSA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Quoting John Abreau <jabr-iwcNaMm7aMIiq3RsQ1AnAw at public.gmane.org>:
>
>> If cstream gives you the output you want, try replacing \n with \r:
>>
>>   ssh host run-program | cstream -T 5 -o localfile | tr '\012' '\015'
>
> Cool Idea, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to work right.  :(
>


Yeah, that is a bit messy. Maybe this would work better, assuming the
status output is to stdout:

    ssh host run-program | cstream -T 5 -o localfile > foo &
    watch -i 5 tail -1 foo


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