[plug] dd progress bar

[Leon Brooks]

On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 15:35, Craig Ringer wrote:
>> However... it really, really needs a progress bar in `dd` so that
>> the user can tell how much data has been written to disk. The lack
>> of a progress bar makes it feel like it's taking FOREVER, when it's
>> only a few minutes. I've found a patch to `dd` to add a progress
>> bar, but it was a rather strange one and appeared to be for an old
>> version of `dd`.\

> Aarrrggh. As so often happens, I found one after posting, despite
> having looked for it just the other day. Still, suggestions are
> welcome.

I have a dd which reports as a progress-bar, percentage or block-count 
(to which it defaults if it doesn't know the length of whatever it's 
copying but has been asked for progress) here:

    http://cyberknights.com.au/download/

Cheers; Leon

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