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Re:Pipe Viewer by kilovoltaire on Thursday May 24, 2012 @07:43PM (#4021175)
yes | pv > /dev/null
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Re:Pipe Viewer by sp332 on Thursday May 24, 2012 @08:17PM (#4021271) 

  pv /dev/zero > /dev/null
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Re:Pipe Viewer by kilovoltaire on Friday May 25, 2012 @09:48AM (#4023421)
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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