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Improve dd command lines to show progress

To give feedback on how long it will take or if it’s stuck forever.

In Tails this works:

pv Persistent/iso/tails-amd64-3.2.iso | dd of=/dev/null bs=16M

In macOS people are reporting using:

As a consequence it should be possible to remove the mention of “the command prompt” which is jargon.

Parent Task: #14548

Original created by @sajolida on 15099 (Redmine)

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