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Commands tagged progress

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dd if=/dev/urandom of=file.img bs=4KB& sleep 1 && pid=`pidof dd`; while [[ -d /proc/$pid ]]; do kill -USR1 $pid && sleep 10 && clear; done
2012-02-23 01:45:53
User: unixmonkey31714
Functions: dd kill sleep
Tags: dd progress progess meter
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Watch the progress of 'dd'

The previously-posted one-liner didn't work for me for whatever reason, so I ended up doing this instead.

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pv -t -p /path/to/sqlfile.sql | mysql -uUSERNAME -pPASSWORD -D DATABASE_NAME
2011-06-27 13:27:48
User: Koobiac
Tags: mysql pv progress import
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Command to import Mysql database with a progress bar.
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dd if=/dev/urandom of=file.img bs=4KB& pid=$!; while [[ -d /proc/$pid ]]; do kill -USR1 $pid && sleep 1 && clear; done
2011-06-24 21:49:10
User: unixmonkey14934
Functions: dd kill sleep
Tags: dd progress
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Watch the progress of 'dd'

Only slightly different than previous commands. The benefit is that your "watch" should die when the dd command has completed. (Of course this would depend on /proc being available)

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dd if=/path/inputfile | pv | dd of=/path/outpufile
2010-12-02 18:11:42
User: lucafaus
Functions: dd
Tags: dd copy progress
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Start dd and show progress every X seconds
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dd if=/path/to/inputfile of=/path/to/outputfile & pid=$! && sleep X && while kill -USR1 $pid; do sleep X; done
2010-12-02 15:07:18
User: cyrusza
Functions: dd kill sleep
Tags: dd copy progress
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Start dd and show progress every X seconds

Adjust "sleep X" to your needs.

*NOTE: First sleep is required because bash doesn't have a "post-test" syntax (do XXX while).

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killall -INFO dd
2010-04-22 18:38:37
User: jearsh
Functions: killall
Tags: dd progress
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check the status of 'dd' in progress (OS X)

"killall -USR1 dd" does not work in OS X for me. However, sending INFO instead of USR1 works.

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pv -cN orig < foo.tar.bz2 | bzcat | pv -cN bzcat | gzip -9 | pv -cN gzip > foo.tar.gz
2010-04-16 05:21:10
User: rkulla
Functions: gzip
Tags: pipes pv convert progress
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See multiple progress bars at once for multiple pipes with pv

In this example we convert a .tar.bz2 file to a .tar.gz file.

If you don't have Pipe Viewer, you'll have to download it via apt-get install pv, etc.

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while :;do killall -USR1 dd;sleep 1;done
2010-04-07 09:23:31
User: oernii2
Functions: killall
Tags: dd progress speed
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send DD a signal to print its progress

every 1sec sends DD the USR1 signal which causes DD to print its progress.

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rsync --progress file1 file2
2010-02-25 19:57:01
User: fletch
Functions: rsync
Tags: copy progress progress
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Copy with progress
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pv file1 > file2
2010-02-25 19:18:32
User: ppaschka
Tags: pv copy progress progress
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Copy with progress

Only works on single files, doesn't preserve permissions/timestamps/ownership.

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dc3dd progress=on bs=512 count=2048 if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null
2010-01-12 22:54:27
User: ubahmapk
Tags: dd copy copy progress progress
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Copy a file using dc3dd and watch its progress (very nice alternative to dd)

Requires the dc3dd package - available at http://dc3dd.sourceforge.net

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tar -cf - . | pv -s $(du -sb . | awk '{print $1}') | gzip > out.tgz
2009-12-18 17:09:08
User: opertinicy
Functions: awk du gzip tar
Tags: awk du tar gzip pv progress
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copy working directory and compress it on-the-fly while showing progress

What happens here is we tell tar to create "-c" an archive of all files in current dir "." (recursively) and output the data to stdout "-f -". Next we specify the size "-s" to pv of all files in current dir. The "du -sb . | awk ?{print $1}?" returns number of bytes in current dir, and it gets fed as "-s" parameter to pv. Next we gzip the whole content and output the result to out.tgz file. This way "pv" knows how much data is still left to be processed and shows us that it will take yet another 4 mins 49 secs to finish.

Credit: Peteris Krumins http://www.catonmat.net/blog/unix-utilities-pipe-viewer/

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copy(){ cp -v "$1" "$2"&watch -n 1 'du -h "$1" "$2";printf "%s%%\n" $(echo `du -h "$2"|cut -dG -f1`/0.`du -h "$1"|cut -dG -f1`|bc)';}
2009-08-03 14:32:32
User: frozenfire
Functions: cp cut echo
Tags: copy copy progress progress
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Copy with progress
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