pipebench ☆

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Description:
Measure the speed of STDIN/STDOUT communication

Type: Formula | Tracked Since: Dec 28, 2025

Links: Homepage | formulae.brew.sh

Category: Developer tools

Tags: cli benchmark performance pipe utility

Install: brew install pipebench

About:
Pipebench is a command-line utility designed to measure the throughput of data piped between STDIN and STDOUT. It functions as a transparent proxy, calculating the transfer speed and total bytes passed through. This provides a simple and effective way to benchmark the performance of shell pipelines and data processing tools.

Key Features:

Measures STDIN-to-STDOUT throughput in real-time
Acts as a transparent filter in shell pipelines
Reports total bytes transferred and elapsed time
Lightweight and simple to use

Use Cases:

Benchmarking the speed of data processing tools like grep, sed, or awk
Measuring the throughput of disk I/O operations (e.g., cat file | pipebench > /dev/null)
Testing network stream speeds within a local shell environment

Alternatives:

dd – The 'dd' command can measure throughput using its 'status=progress' flag but is primarily a file copy utility.
pv – 'pv' (Pipe Viewer) is a more feature-rich alternative that provides progress bars, ETA, and detailed statistics.

Version History

Detected	Version	Rev	Change	Commit
Sep 13, 2025 10:58am		0	VERSION_BUMP	2178c028
Sep 13, 2024 6:31am		0	VERSION_BUMP	447b2dd8