Commands by sternebrau (1)

  • check the status of 'dd' in progress (OS X)

    While a dd is running in one terminal, open another and enter the while loop. The sample output will be displayed in the window running the dd and the while loop will exit when the dd is complete. It's possible that a "sudo" will need to be inserted before "pkill", depending on your setup, for example: while pgrep ^dd; do sudo pkill -INFO dd; sleep 10; done Show Sample Output


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    while pgrep ^dd; do pkill -INFO dd; sleep 10; done
    sternebrau · 2014-01-28 03:09:25 0

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