Re: dd enhancement

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 10/5/18 8:24 PM, paul kairis wrote:
> Is it possible for dd to provide only the transfer statistics line?
> (eliminate the records in/out lines)
> The status=noxfer does exactly the opposite, shows records in/out
> but suppresses transfer stats. suggestion to add a status=xfer like
> dd if=/dev/zero of=zero.txt bs=1M count=1000 status=xfer
> 
> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB, 1000 MiB) copied, 0.772897 s, 1.4 GB/s
> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB, 1000 MiB) copied, 0.768838 s, 1.4 GB/s
> 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB, 1000 MiB) copied, 0.784605 s, 1.3 GB/s

I'm not sure what you want to achieve, but did you try "status=progress"
(available since 8.24)?  Well, it still writes the in/out lines, yet
you'll get the transfer statistics.

Have a nice day,
Berny