This is off-topic because it's on OS/X instead of Debian, but you folks are the smartest, so....
The GNU dd command, when sent the -USR1 signal, pauses processing long enough to spit out a status line, like so: 18335302+0 records in18335302+0 records out 9387674624 bytes (9.4 GB) copied, 34.6279 seconds, 271 MB/s But the OS/X version (requiring the -SIGINFO signal instead of -USR1, which kills the process instead of just pausing it), spits out a status line like so: 5346+0 records in 5346+0 records out 5605687296 bytes transferred in 1890.826832 secs (2964675 bytes/sec) The command I'm using to get this status message is: kill -SIGINFO 32816 (32816 is the PID of the dd command in this case) Is there any thing I can throw at this command, perhaps a sed or awk command, etc, which would convert the status' bytes output to GB output? Thanks! -- Kent West <")))>< Westing Peacefully - http://kentwest.blogspot.com
