cv.1

.TH CV 1 "September 01, 2014" "cv"

.SH NAME
cv \- Coreutils Viewer
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B cv
[
.B \-qdwmM
] [
.B \-W 
.I secs
] [
.B \-c 
.I command
] [
.B \-p 
.I pid
]
.br
.B cv -v
|
.B \-\-version
.br
.B cv \-h
|
.B \-\-help
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.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page briefly documents the \fBcv\fP command.
.PP
This tool can be described as a Tiny, Dirty, Linux-Only C command
that looks for coreutils basic commands (cp, mv, dd, tar, gzip/gunzip,
cat, etc.) currently running on your system and displays the
percentage of copied data.

It can now also estimate throughput (using flag
.B \-w
).


.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-q (\-\-quiet)
hides all messages
.TP
.B \-d (\-\-debug)
shows all warning/error messages
.TP
.B \-w (\-\-wait)
estimate I/O throughput and ETA (slower display)
.TP
.B \-W (\-\-wait\-delay secs)
wait 'secs' seconds for I/O estimation (implies
.B \-w
)
.TP
.B \-m (\-\-monitor)
loop while monitored processes are still running
.TP
.B \-M (\-\-monitor\-continous)
like monitor but never stop (similar to 
.B watch cv
)
.TP
.B \-c (\-\-command cmd)
monitor only this command name (ex: firefox)
.TP
.B \-p (\-\-pid id)
monitor only this numeric process ID (ex: \`pidof firefox\`)
.TP
.B \-v (\-\-version)
show program version and exit
.TP
.B \-h (\-\-help)
display help message and exit

.SH EXAMPLES

Continuously monitor all current and upcoming instances of coreutils commands
.RS

.B watch cv \-q

.RE
See how your download is progressing
.RS

.B watch cv \-wc firefox

.RE
Look at your Web server activity
.RS

.B cv \-c httpd

.RE
Launch and monitor any heavy command using \$\!
.RS

.B cp bigfile newfile & cv \-mp \$\!

.RE
.SH BUGS
Please report bugs at: http://github.com/Xfennec/cv/issues

.SH HOMEPAGE
http://github.com/Xfennec/cv

.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Thomas Zimmermann <bugs@vdm-design.de>,
for the openSUSE project (and may be used by others).