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+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2018, Los Alamos National Security, LLC
+# Produced at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
+#
+# This file is part of Spack.
+# Created by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
+# LLNL-CODE-647188
+#
+# For details, see https://github.com/spack/spack
+# Please also see the NOTICE and LICENSE files for our notice and the LGPL.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1, February 1999.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the terms and
+# conditions of the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+##############################################################################
+from spack import *
+
+
+class Pv(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """ Pipe Viewer - is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress
+        of data through a pipeline
+    """
+
+    homepage = "http://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml"
+    url      = "http://www.ivarch.com/programs/sources/pv-1.6.6.tar.bz2"
+
+    version('1.6.6', 'ff3564fddcc2b9bd4a9c1d143aba4b4c')