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check the status of 'dd' in progress

Terminal - check the status of 'dd' in progress
ps auxww |grep " dd " |grep -v grep |awk '{print $2}' |while read pid; do kill -USR1 $pid; done
2009-02-19 22:46:06
User: nottings
Functions: grep kill ps read
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check the status of 'dd' in progress

Check the status of a 'dd' in progress. useful when creating very large dumps and want to see how far along it is. Sending the kill -USR1 forces dd to dump it's progress to stdout

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watch -n 10 killall -USR1 dd
2009-11-09 00:03:34
User: Clopnixus
Functions: killall watch
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check the status of 'dd' in progress
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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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while killall -USR1 dd; do sleep 5; done
2009-11-09 00:27:33
User: Mikachu
Functions: killall sleep
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check the status of 'dd' in progress

Stops when the (last) dd process exits.

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dd
2010-04-22 05:02:36
User: katysingh007
Functions: dd
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check the status of 'dd' in progress

hello

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works as expected (ubuntu 8.04)

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