Re: dd and verbosity

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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&section=projects

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