I want to grok how fast a particular file is growing.I could do watch ls -l fileAnd deduce this information from the rate of change.Is there something similar that would directly output the rate of growth of the file over time?
A command line utility to visualize how fast a file is growing?
command line;files
tail -f file | pv > /dev/nullBut beware that it involves acually reading the file, so it might consume a bit more resources than something that watches just file size.