pipebench(1)

NAME
pipebench - Shows speed of stdin/stdout communication

SYNOPSIS
pipebench [ -ehqQor ] [ -b <bufsize> ]

DESCRIPTION
Measures the speed of stdin/stdout communication.

OPTIONS

-h  Displays a help message and exits.

-e  If an error occurs, exit (breaking the pipe between stdin and stdout. By default an error message is printed to stderr and the program continues.

-q  Only show summary stats.

-Q  Don't show running speed or summary stats. Same as -q -o. Can be used to play with buffer size.

-o  Don't show summary.

-b bufsize
    Use this buffer size.

-r  Just show raw speed, no fancy stuff. And no summary.

BUGS
No known bugs. But there is no guarantee on the accuracy of the benchmark.

SEE ALSO

    dd(1), cat(1)

AUTHOR

    Pipebench was written by Thomas Habets <thomas@habets.pp.se>