Does anyone know of a good alternative to Pipe Viewer for Windows Platform?

Question

If you do not know what Pipe Viewer is (I did not know about it until 5 minutes ago), then this blog does a good job giving a brief introduction to it with some examples. I write a lot of Perl Scripts as an ETL developer and a lot of times, the files that I work with take really long time to operate with (unzipping, moving, etc). Therefore, this tool would be awesome except I work in a Windows Environment. If anyone knows of a tool that gives you Progress of an operation running in the pipeline, please let me know as that would make my scripts that much more useful.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I doubt such a tool exists for win32, but it should run on cygwin. But then again You probably don't use it :)

Answer 2

I tried to compile under cygwin, but no luck. Googled for a CYGWIN binary, too -- again, no luck.

Any tips out there?

Answer 3

I finally made it work on Cygwin environment though that is not answer for the original post. "--disable-nls" does the trick.

./configure --disable-nls

make

make test

cp pv /usr/bin

== by Kenji (k2) ==

Answer 4

http://www.beyondlogic.org/solutions/pipesec/pipesec.htm