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Re: Trying to understand man page for dd

From JPlews <jw@plews.org.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Trying to understand man page for dd
Date 2017-05-28 14:10 +0200
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On 28/05/17 12:58, Richard Owlett wrote:
> It says in part:
>> Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O
>> statistics to standard error and then resume copying.
>>
>>     $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$!
>>
>>     $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid
> 
> I think it is trying to tell me what I need to know.
> But there is too much going on there,
> Guidance please.
> TIA
> 
> 
> 

have a look at status=progress

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Trying to understand man page for dd Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-28 14:00 +0200
  Re: Trying to understand man page for dd JPlews <jw@plews.org.uk> - 2017-05-28 14:10 +0200
    Re: Trying to understand man page for dd Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-28 14:30 +0200
    Re: Trying to understand man page for dd Ulf Volmer <u.volmer@u-v.de> - 2017-06-02 00:00 +0200
      Re: Trying to understand man page for dd Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-06-03 14:00 +0200
  Re: Trying to understand man page for dd The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-05-28 14:10 +0200
    Re: Trying to understand man page for dd Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-28 14:30 +0200
  Re: Trying to understand man page for dd "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-05-28 14:50 +0200
    Re: Trying to understand man page for dd Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-28 15:00 +0200
  Re: Trying to understand man page for dd David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2017-05-29 02:50 +0200
    Re: Trying to understand man page for dd "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-05-29 08:30 +0200
      Re: Trying to understand man page for dd Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-29 14:10 +0200
        Re: Trying to understand man page for dd David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-29 15:40 +0200
          Re: Trying to understand man page for dd Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-05-29 16:20 +0200
            Re: Trying to understand man page for dd "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2017-05-29 17:20 +0200
            Re: Trying to understand man page for dd David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2017-05-29 17:20 +0200
        Re: Trying to understand man page for dd David <bouncingcats@gmail.com> - 2017-05-30 04:30 +0200
    Re: Trying to understand man page for dd mbroe@oakland.edu - 2017-05-31 15:20 +0200

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