How to check file transfer speed in Linux?

In Linux, you can use command line tools to view file transfer speeds. Here are several commonly used methods:

  1. You can use the pv command to monitor the transfer speed of a data stream. To install it, you can use the following command:
  2. Please install pv using apt-get command.
  3. You can then use the pv command to monitor the file transfer speed, for example:
  4. Read the content of the file named “filename” and send it to /dev/null using dd.
  5. The filename is the name of the file to be transferred.
  6. Install the nload command to monitor network traffic using the following command.
  7. Install nload using sudo apt-get
  8. Then use the following command to monitor the file transfer speed:
  9. Limit the network usage to 1000 kilobytes per second.
  10. This will display the transfer speed in Kb/s.
  11. To monitor network traffic using the `iftop` command, you can install it with the following command.
  12. Install iftop using the sudo apt-get command.
  13. Then use the following command to monitor the file transfer speed:
  14. the tool “iftop”
  15. This will show real-time network traffic information, including upload and download speeds.

These are some commonly used methods to check file transfer speed, you can choose one of them based on your own needs.

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