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hrldcpr on May 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pipe Viewer

yes | pv > /dev/null

sp332 on May 25, 2012 [–]

  pv /dev/zero > /dev/null

hrldcpr on May 25, 2012 | [–]

awesome, i was actually wondering if there was a "yes-esque" (yesque?) /dev/ file.

my throughput from yes is 49MB/s whereas from /dev/zero it's 12GB/s

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