I thought FreeBSD didn't but indeed it was Alpine (which uses busybox instead of gnu-utils) indeed. What I normally do is just do a 'watch -n 30 killall -USR1

I thought FreeBSD didn't but indeed it was Alpine (which uses busybox instead of gnu-utils) indeed. What I normally do is just do a 'watch -n 30 killall -USR1 dd' in another window which triggers regular progress updates :) That why I don't use ^T I use FreeBSD also but indeed it supports it now.