On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 01:12:35PM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org> writes:[1] insofar as you want to use dd at all ...dd does conveniently provide progress and stats whereas cp does not.
stats which are misleading without the proper arguments, so it's a bit of a wash. This is actually a hard problem because what people expect as the desired output varies considerably depending on the task at hand. There are a number of tools which will do variations of this, without the baggage of dd. (E.g., pv)