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I read about the Pipe Viewer (pv) Linux utility, and it sounds really useful. I use plenty of Linux tools on Windows, but this one doesn't seem to be part of the msysgit suite that I use.

How can I get a Windows binary of it?

Ram Rachum
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I have stumbled over this question today, as I am looking the same kind of tool for Windows. I didn't found one for Windows, but I found that answer from Stackoverflow, and the solution is just to use the one from Cygwin.

Here is the quote from there:

I finally made it work on Cygwin environment though that is not answer for the original post. "--disable-nls" does the trick.

./configure --disable-nls

make

make test

cp pv /usr/bin

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Hanan
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I've gathered files needed for a "pv for cygwin" software package.

With version one of this software package, the msyspv1b.zip file contains pv.exe for Microsoft Windows as well as the needed .dll files in one download. (The difference between what I'm mentioning with this answer, and Smeterlink's answer, is just that this download is likely notably larger due to the necessary DLL files.)

(As I'm planning some changes to hosting lcoation at the time of this writing, hyperlink information has been placed in comments under this answer.)

I may or may not get around to releasing a newer version some day. (The main benefit I would be planning on is to see if I could rip out some dependencies so that you could have just one .exe file which doens't necessarily contain all of the codeneeded for more general Cygwin support, and therefore likely to be a smaller amount of data overall, compared to the space needed for all data including required external .dll files.)

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It is already available as a cygwin package for 32 and 64 bits.

Pipeviewer for Cygwin 32 bits:

https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86%2Fpv%2Fpv-1.4.4-1&grep=pv.exe https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86%2Fpv%2Fpv-1.4.12-1&grep=pv.exe

Pipeviewer for Cygwin 64 bits:

https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Fpv%2Fpv-1.4.12-1&grep=pv.exe

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