HowTo: Check The Status of dd Command In Progress under Unix like operating systems

by on October 20, 2012· last updated at October 20, 2012

Fig.02: Show the Status of dd Command in progress using pv and dialog command

This command uses dd, pv, and dialog command to display an updated progress bar while using the dd command. This is useful to see the status of a dd in progress when creating very large dumps or coping hard disk devices using dd command.

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