On Sat, 2018-09-08 at 08:10 +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 07Sep2018 15:56, JD <jd1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 09/07/2018 03:34 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 7 Sep 2018 16:37:49 -0400 Tony Nelson 
> > > > <tonynel...@georgeanelson.com> 
> > > > wrote:
> > > 
> > > The line for the cloning process in my g4l is like this.
> > > dd bs=1M if=$clonesource 2>/dev/null |jetcat-mod -f 5000 -p $clonesize
> > > 2>$progout |dd bs=1M of=$clonetarget 2>/dev/null &
> 
> [...]
> > > Uses a dialog script to set the variables, and then runs the copy command 
> > > in
> > > background. The foreground script takes the data written to the progout 
> > > file
> > > and displays a progress bar via dialog.
> 
> [...]
> > Michael D. Setzer II,
> > What is the purpose of inserting the utility
> > jetcat-mod  between the 2 dd commands?
> 
> Apologies, I think I've lost track of the attributions.
> 
> I'd expect jetcat to (a) provide an agressive buffering beyond what a pipe 
> provides (letting the first dd get ahead more) and (b) report progress.

Never heard of jetcat and it appears to be unknown to dnf.

poc
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