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:
- Ctrl+T: https://superuser.com/questions/794751/is-there-a-way-to-output-the-status-of-dd-on-os-x-during-the-copy-process
- status=progress: https://linuxcommando.blogspot.hu/2008/06/show-progress-during-dd-copy.html
- pv: https://blog.ciarand.me/posts/using-dd-and-pv-on-osx/index.html
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)