Make dd display progress by default
| Project: | Linux software |
| Component: | Documentation |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
| Related pages: | #9407: How to burn .iso to USB drive |
| Tags: | dd |
Description
When using dd, there is no output at all until the process has completed.
In order to see the progress, one has to go in a very roundabout way:
// In another console, find dd's pid:
ps aux | grep dd
// Replace $pid with the actual pid of dd.
kill -USR1 $pid
// Go back to the original console and see the progress output.It'd be nice to have a --verbose // --silent pair of flags (with --verbose being the default) which would automatically display and update the progress report.