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Friday, May 2, 2008

progress report for dd

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/demo bs=1M count=1536

when running above command, you don't get any progress report, if you want, you can open another window,
run the following command so that dd will show up the progress every 5 minutes

watch -n5 -- pkill -USR1 ^dd$


Posted by Jephe Wu at 12:15 AM
Labels: dd, pkill, progress, USR1

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