This is a pretty useful feature for something that regularly copies large files/disks you'd want to see the progress of, in fact I'd say it should have been default behavior for years.
I'd make some crude comment about cargo culting, but do you have an explicit complaint? dd itself is derided by the plan9 crew for many more reasons than a progress bar, and the cli arguments are obtuse because they're a joke.
I'd make some crude comment about cargo culting, but do you have an explicit complaint? dd itself is derided by the plan9 crew for many more reasons than a progress bar, and the cli arguments are obtuse because they're a joke.
[0]: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/dd.html