Re: Trying to understand man page for dd

[JPlews <jw@plews.org.uk>]

On 28/05/17 12:58, Richard Owlett wrote:
> It says in part:
> > Sending a USR1 signal to a running 'dd' process makes it print I/O
> > statistics to standard error and then resume copying.
> >
> >     $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$!
> >
> >     $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid
>
> I think it is trying to tell me what I need to know.
> But there is too much going on there,
> Guidance please.
> TIA

have a look at status=progress