On 2017-06-01, Ulf Volmer <u.vol...@u-v.de> wrote: > On 05/28/2017 02:05 PM, JPlews wrote: > >>>> $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$! >>>> $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid > >> have a look at status=progress > > This option does not exist in debian stable.
Would 'pv' help? dd if=/dev/zero | pv | of=/dev/null Apparently if you know the approximate 'size' it will give you will an ETA. dd if=/dev/sdb | pv -s 2G | dd of=DriveCopy1.dd bs=4096 It can also be used directly as in the man page example pv file | nc -w 1 somewhere.com 3000 In this latter case it evaluates the file size directly. > best regards > Ulf > > -- "It might be a vision--of a shell, of a wheelbarrow, of a fairy kingdom on the far side of the hedge; or it might be the glory of speed; no one knew." --Mrs. Ramsay, speculating on why her little daughter might be dashing about, in "To the Lighthouse," by Virginia Woolf.
