Compression progress bar

# pp test-file | gzip > test-file.gz
 752.4 Mib / 3.5 Gib  [=============---------------- 20% -----------------------------] 20.9 Mib/s  (eta 02m 16s)

Linear HDD read speed

# pp -r /dev/ad8
   4.9 Gib / 40 Gib   [=======---------------------- 12% -----------------------------] 73.3 Mib/s  (eta 08m 10s)

Copying

# pp test-file > test-file.copy
   2.8 Gib / 3.5 Gib  [============================= 79% ================-------------] 52.8 Mib/s  (eta 00m 14s)

Line-mode: grep progress

# pp -l test-file | grep needle > needles
  12.6 Mln / ~52.4 Mln [==============--------------- 23% ----------------------------] 783.7 Kln/s (eta 00m 50s)