How did I live without Pipe Watch?
How did I live without Pipe Watch? launched on May 2, 2022 with 128 votes, #212 of 2,942 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 4 years on.
In plain words
Pipe Watch is a utility launched in May 2022 that monitors pipe activity. It is designed for users who need to track or analyze data flowing through pipes in real-time. The tool stands out for providing visibility into pipe operations, helping users understand and debug processes that might otherwise remain hidden or difficult to observe.
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From the sources
pw stands for Pipe Watch. Pipe Watch is a new, unique text stream monitoring utility for Unix-like systems, developed starting in April 2022. Pipe Watch is used similarly to a pager, like the less utility, but the paradigm is quite different. pw can monitor anything that produces textual output. tail -f /var/logfile , tcpdump , strace , ... pw does not show you everything. Of course, it reads all the data, but it does that in the background. It continuously pumps lines of input through a small FIFO buffer. This buffer is sampled, and the sample is displayed. When that sampling occurs is controlled in various interactive ways. What goes into the FIFO can be filtered and the filters can be…from kylheku.com
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