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by regentbowerbird 606 days ago
Super cool, thanks.

I wondered how its speed could be adjusted and found `pv` can be used for throttling pipe throughput, so thanks for that too!

Limited to reading 50kB per second:

    cat /dev/urandom | pv -q -L 50k | hexdump -C | grep 'ca fe'
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Alternatively, slow it down by a factor of 16 for every additional specified character.

    cat /dev/urandom | hexdump -C | grep '9 ca fe'