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Press ctrl-T while dd is running to sent it SIGINFO. IIRC dd status=progress was added so that dd would have something like ctrl-T on non-BSD systems. Linux lac
by fanf2 5y ago
Press ctrl-T while dd is running to sent it SIGINFO. IIRC dd status=progress was added so that dd would have something like ctrl-T on non-BSD systems. Linux lacks SIGINFO so it isn’t very widely known, nor are there many 3rd party programs that support it.
- chris37879 5y agoOn linux either SIGUSR1 or 2, I forget which, will do it too, it's mostly just an annoyance with there not being a flag for it. The only signal I can reliably remember is to quit programs...