Best most accurate way to pipe into pv for progress

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Thu Mar 26 2026 17:59:26 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

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pv -ptebar -s "$(du -sb /home/ihack | awk '{print $1}')" 

exmaple:

tar -cpf - /home/ihack \
| pv -ptebar -s "$(du -sb /home/ihack | awk '{print $1}')" \
| zstd -T0 > backup.tar.zst
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