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| From | The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Trying to understand man page for dd |
| Date | 2017-05-28 14:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <tM5bb-1NQ-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <tM51v-1tL-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
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On 2017-05-28 at 07:58, 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 Can you clarify what it is that you don't understand, or what it is that you need to know? Because the part you quoted (which I do recognize, and have made use of myself in the past) seems perfectly straightforward and understandable to me, and you haven't provided any context to indicate what your problem is or what it is that you don't understand. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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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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