.TH PIPEMETER 1
.SH NAME
pipemeter \- measure speed of data going through a pipe/redirection
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pipemeter
[ -s size ] [ -b block_size ] [ -i interval ] [ -V ] [ -f infile ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I  pipemeter
simply takes input on stdin, and redirects it to its stdout. While doing this, it measures how fast the data is moving through it.
Alternatively, with the -s parameter, shows a progress bar as data is piped through it.
All output generated by pipemeter is written to stderr.
.TP
\fB\-s\fR \fBsize\fR
Sets the size of the input, and turns on the progress bar.
.TP
\fB\-b\fR \fBblock_size\fR
Sets the size of blocks, in bytes, to move through the program at once. Default is 8192. A suffix of K means Kilobytes(x*1024) means Megabytes(x*1024*1024), and G means Gigabytes(x*1024*1024*1024).
.TP
\fB\-i\fR \fBinterval\fR
Specify the number of seconds between updates on the speed and/or progress bar.
.TP
\fB\-f\fR \fBinfile\fR
infile specifies a file to be read instead of stdin. It will also automatically turn on the progress bar if a size can be determined.
.TP
\fB\-r\fR
report only mode. This causes the program to suppress outputting/calculating while running. It will print out only one line.
.TP
\fB\-V\fR
Prints a version number and exits.