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		_pfxa on March 18, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Cult of DD > pv (You probably know this as you use OpenBSD, but) something I really like about BSDs is that nost of the core commands respond to ^T with progress info ofsome kin, dd included.

arjie on March 18, 2017 | [–]

Woah. That's neat. Thank you!

ksherlock on March 19, 2017 | [–]

cool - by default, ^T generates the non-standard SIGINFO. That seems to be true of other BSDs as well, including OS X.

_pfxa on March 19, 2017 | [–]

Also, Linux dd responds to SIGUSR1, writing progress info on stdout. Sth. to be vary of is that the same signal kills BSD dd.

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