dd progress indicator on OSX
Unfortunately, dd on OSX has no status option:
But it reacts to signals too, like dd on Linux. It's another signal however: siginfo.
And signal siginfo is coupled to key-combination CTRL-T. No need to use kill, you can just type CTRL-T in the terminal window where dd is running:
Didier Stevens
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Microsoft MVP
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dd progress indicator on Linux
When I have to use dd (if I can, I use dc3dd) I try to remember to include option status=progress to have a progress indicator.
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Last time on a Linux machine, I forgot to include that option. Reading the man page for a solution, I found this:
I could get a progress indication, without having to restart dd with the missing status option, by sending it the sigusr1 signal (on Linux).
Didier Stevens
Senior handler
Microsoft MVP
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