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		bayindirh on May 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Useless Use of "dd" (2015) Fun fact: dd outputs its progress when it receives a USR1 signal via kill too.

trasz on May 23, 2022 [–]

And on BSD systems you can just press ctrl-t.

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