Does anyone know of a good alternative to Pipe Viewer for Windows Platform?

Question

If you do not know what Pipe Viewer is (I did not know about it until 5 minutes ago), then this blog does a good job giving a brief introduction to it with some examples. I writ

Answer 1

Cygwin has pv (Pipe Viewer) as an available package since I don't know when... but it is not installed by default.

1. Download the Cygwin setup executablefrom the install page.
2. While installing cygwin, you need to expressly search and mark for installation pv found in the Utils section.

If you have already installed cygwin, you can always add it later on by re-running the setup executable.