How to rate-limit a pipe under linux ?
- by Frédéric Grosshans
Is there a filter which I could use to rate-limit a pipe on linux? If this exists, let call it rate-limit, I want to be able to type in a terminal something like
cat /dev/urandom | rate-limit 3 -k | foo
in order to send a a stream of random bytes to foo's standard input at a rate (lower than) 3 kbytes/s.