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		adrusi on July 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, d... Here's a single command which should do the same. It supports cp and dd, but anything else that supports SIGINFO could be added in. `ps -A \| grep -P 'cp\|dd' \| sed -r 's/^\s*([0-9]+).+$/\1/' \| xargs kill -s SIGINFO`

ars on July 13, 2014 [–]

This assumes the command supports SIGINFO, but that's a BSD thing. Linux commands don't support that, so this is not a replacement.

And did you really just reinvent pkill?

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