speedometer(1) [debian man page]
speedometer(1) User Commands speedometer(1) NAME
speedometer - measure and display the rate of data across a network connection SYNOPSIS
speedometer [options] tap [[-c] tap] ... DESCRIPTION
Monitor network traffic or speed/progress of a file transfer. At least one tap option (-f, -rx, -tx) must be entered. Option -c starts a new column, otherwise taps are piled vertically. Note: before you use the program, satrt generating traffic by transferring files in/out e.g. with scp(1) in the network you're measuring. OPTIONS
-b Use old blocky display instead of smoothed display even when UTF-8 encoding is detected. -f filename [size] Display download speed with progress bar. This option must be used if directly following another file tap without an expected size specified. -i interval Interval in seconds. Examples: 5 or 0.25". Default is 1. -p Use plain-text display (one tap only). -rx iface Display bytes received on network interface. -tx iface Display bytes transmitted on network interface. -z Report zero size on files that don't exist instead of waiting for them to be created EXAMPLES How long it will take for my 38MB transfer to finish? speedometer favorite_episode.rm $(( 38 * 1024 * 1024 )) How quickly is another transfer going? speedometer dl/big.avi How fast is this LAN? host-a$ cat /dev/zero | nc -l -p 12345 host-b$ nc host-a 12345 > /dev/null host-b$ speedometer -rx eth0 How fast is the upstream on this ADSL line? speedometer -tx ppp0 How fast can I write data to my filesystem? (with at least 1GB free) dd bs=1000000 count=1000 if=/dev/zero of=bigfile & speedometer bigfile ENVIRONMENT
None. FILES
None. SEE ALSO
htop(1) iotop(1) scp(1) top(1) vmstat(1) AUTHORS
Program was written by Ian Ward <ian.ward@excess.org> This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>. Released under license GNU GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version. For more information about license, visit <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>. speedometer 2011-12-10 speedometer(1)
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hitchhiker(1) 2012-06-15 hitchhiker(1) NAME
hitchhiker - Access locations using Bazaar transports SYNOPSIS
hitchhiker [URL] [COMMAND] [ARGS] OPTIONS
None. DESCRIPTION
A client to access bzr transports, namely the Bazaar version control repositories. This utility can be used to log into the remote host and manipulate Bazaar repositoy content like it were a FTP, SFTP client. Command include cp, mv, rmtree etc. Use Case: command 'bzr upgrade <URL> <repository format options>' is run and after the process is over the backup.bzr needs to be removed. With this tool the task is easy. If no COMMAND is supplied, interactive mode is launched. If no URL is supplied, in interactive mode, the "open" command should be used to connect to a location. EXAMPLES
COMMAND LINE USE To run command, like help non-interactively, use URL, e.g. current directory: hitchhiker . help Without options, the command line client starts in interactive mode: hitchhiker (Cmd) <cursor here> Try command help for list of possibilities (Cmd) help at cd connect-and-wait edit exit get help info ls lsl mirror mkdir open put rename rm rmtree Further help is provided for each command: (Cmd) help open Usage: open LOCATION Open a new location. The location may be any URL supported by Bazaar. (Cmd) exit USE CASES Upgrade a remote Bazaar baranch at http://launchpad.net Bazaar and remove the backup bzr upgrade lp:~user/+brach/name --2a hitchhiker lp:~user/+brach/name rmtree backup.bzr ENVIRONMENT
None. FILES
None. SEE ALSO
bzr(1) sftp(1) AUTHORS
Program was written by Aaron Bentley <aaron.bentley@canonical.com>. This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>, for the Debian GNU system (but may be used by others). Updated by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>. Released under license GNU GPL v2 or (at your option) any later version. For more information about license, visit <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>. hitchhiker 2012-06-15 hitchhiker(1)