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Erwin on May 24, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Pipe Viewer

On FreeBSD (and maybe Mac OS X) you can press Control-T to send a SIGINFO signal (non-standard extension. This prints out how far dd has gotten (and perhaps other FreeBSD utilities too).

there on May 25, 2012 [–]

You may need to setup your terminal to do that with:

    stty status '^T'

fsck also responds to SIGINFO by printing its status. I had to hack up rsync to do it (http://jcs.org/patches/rsync-show_current_file.diff), and I wish more utilities supported it by default.

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