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On FreeBSD (and maybe Mac OS X) you can press Control-T to send a SIGINFO signal (non-standard extension. This prints out how far dd has gotten (and perhaps oth
by Erwin 14y ago
On FreeBSD (and maybe Mac OS X) you can press Control-T to send a SIGINFO signal (non-standard extension. This prints out how far dd has gotten (and perhaps other FreeBSD utilities too).
- there 14y agoYou may need to setup your terminal to do that with: stty status '^T' fsck also responds to SIGINFO by printing its status. I had to hack up rsync to do it (http://jcs.org/patches/rsync-show_current_file.diff http://jcs.org/patches/rsync-show_current_file.diff), and I wish more utilities supported it by default.