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ankit0301

01-15-2013 07:06 AM

gzip statistcs

suppose i zip a file using

$gzip -f filename

and the file is more than 50GB
after firing the command how can i check how much data is still left to be zipped.

Thanks

rmacd

01-15-2013 07:15 AM

If you've pv on your system:

Code:

pv filename | gzip > filename.gz

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