Right. I usually use pv in place of 'cat' at the start of a long set of piped commands. Anywhere you could use 'cat' you can use pv. If I'm not mistaken, I think you can also use multiple 'pv' commands at a time too.
> If I'm not mistaken, I think you can also use multiple 'pv' commands at a time too.
I use multiple pv instances to track compression/decompression rates, and overall progress, for tarballs. Using the "-c" code for console codes keeps the instances from stomping over each other's output.
