[Bash] How to show information about dd progress / statistics
dd is a great tool for low-level copying and conversion of raw data. It can be also used for data erasure. Unfortunately, it doesn’t show any information about progress of copying. Here is my little, but useful script: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 #!/bin/bash # dd.sh Author: Wojtek Jamrozy (www.wojtekrj.net) dd $* & pid=$! sleep 10 while [ -e "/proc/$pid" ] ; do kill -USR1 $pid sleep 10 done#!/bin/bash # dd.sh Author: Wojtek…