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Re: dd and verbosity
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Re: dd and verbosity |
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Thu, 09 Sep 2004 09:30:54 +0100 |
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John Lowell wrote:
I use dd in connection with nc to do network backups. I've wondered if
there is any way that dd can be made verbose as it copies one disk to
the other. The manual offers no such option and, reviewing additional
information at the coreutils site, I can't find anything helpful. Can
dd be made verbose?
Well it's trivial to implement "progress" output,
and an existing patch is the first hit below:
http://www.google.ie/search?q=dd+progress+patch
You could put a dedicated progress meter in the pipe
like the following, but that would involve a data copy
(which doesn't seem particulary onerous for you since you're
transfering across the network):
http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=pipe+progress§ion=projects
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