The dd command allows you to duplicate a hard disk to another or erase a hard drive completely. It is also useful for backups and recovery. However, once you start a dd command, there’s nothing to tell you of its progress. It just sits at the cursor until the command finally finishes. There are various ways to display the progress of dd command on Linux. This tutorial explains how to use the latest version of dd from GNU/coreutils to displays its status on Linux based system.
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