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		cjdell on Jan 24, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is it better to use cat, dd, pv or another procedu... I'm so glad that DD now has the status=progress option. Still not widely known.

TacticalCoder on Jan 24, 2021 [–]

I used to cat dd into "pv" : )

hyperdimension on Jan 24, 2021 | [–]

Before I learned of the flag, I used to do a 'while true; do killall -SIGUSR1 dd; sleep 5; done' loop in another terminal.

saagarjha on Jan 26, 2021 | | [–]

SIGINFO on macOS.

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