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PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 11:28 am    Post subject: dd with progress?? Reply with quote

hi,

it's unbelieveable that a program for such an important task has NO formal way of showing progress of the operation. Progress piece of code is widely used everywhere, should not be something hard to implement. Why dd doesn't have progress? dd's attitude is like 'it'll get done when it's done.", that doesn't help a lot. Everyone wants to know progress of a task completing.

How to use dd with a sane way of showing progress?

thanks.
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PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 11:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

man dd: send USR1 signal.

http://www.usr-share-man.org/man1/dd.html
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PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 12:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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
18335302+0 records in
18335302+0 records out
9387674624 bytes (9.4 GB) copied, 34.6279 seconds, 271 MB/s


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PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 12:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

dd is not a GUI tool.
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PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 1:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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From your perspective, perhaps, but it's highly consistent with the Unix philosophy. Almost all basic tools are silent when nothing bad is happening.

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PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 1:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I wasn't asking for GUI tool. dd progress implementation is bizarre and mighty dangerous.

Why not something like rsync? Every music player on earth has progress, torrents have progress, sites have progress. How hard could it be to include a sane, built-in, option to show progress?

I don't get dd's way. I am supposed to KILL the process and then RESUME just to see the progress?? That looks ass backwards.
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PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 1:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

the command "kill" just sends a signal to a process, it doesn't actually mean it kills it.
You are not killing dd and then resuming it when you send -USR1 to the dd process, you are informing dd to indicate its progress

kill by default send signal 7 SIGHUP, there is then kill 1 and kill 2 and the nasty nasty kill 9 ( SIGKILL)

the dd method is quite good. it doesn't have to sit there servicing any term I/O, it just has to deal with disk I/O ONLY when it is request will it then inform of its proces
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PostPosted: Wed May 15, 2013 1:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

use pipeviewer/pv:

Code:

# pv test.bzImage | dd of=/tmp/test.img
12.9MiB 0:00:00 [ 106MiB/s] [============================================================================================================>] 100%           
26434+1 records in
26434+1 records out
13534560 bytes (14 MB) copied, 0.130814 s, 103 MB/s
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

yzh wrote:
use pipeviewer/pv:

Code:

# pv test.bzImage | dd of=/tmp/test.img
12.9MiB 0:00:00 [ 106MiB/s] [============================================================================================================>] 100%           
26434+1 records in
26434+1 records out
13534560 bytes (14 MB) copied, 0.130814 s, 103 MB/s


this one somehow did random chopping to the copy.

I've found one that takes the crown:

Code:
watch -n 60 killall -USR1 dd


much user-friendly that dd's own man pages suggestion:

Code:
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$!
$ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 8:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Inadvisable to use killall here. Linux is a multi-user OS, and there may be multiple instances of 'dd'. Saving off the PID (like in the man page) is the better way to handle this.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 22, 2013 4:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I am surprise that the command dcfldd have not been mention here. It show a basic progress status by default.
Code:
eix -sv dcfldd
* sys-apps/dcfldd
     Available versions:  1.3.4.1
     Best versions/slot:  1.3.4.1
     Homepage:            http://dcfldd.sourceforge.net/
     Find open bugs:      http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=sys-apps%2Fdcfldd
     Description:         enhanced dd with features for forensics and security
     License:             GPL-2

A lot of pipe utilities are available in portage too.
Code:
eix -cs pipe
[N] app-arch/zpipe (~2.01): Pipe compressor/decompressor for ZPAQ
[N] app-benchmarks/pipebench (0.40): Measures the speed of stdin/stdout communication
[N] app-crypt/aespipe (2.3e): Encrypts data from stdin to stdout
[N] app-misc/pipeworks (0.4): a small utility that measures throughput between stdin and stdout
[N] app-misc/tpipe (1.6): Command to duplicate standard input to more than one program
[I] dev-libs/libpipeline (1.2.3@22/09/2013): a pipeline manipulation library
[N] dev-ml/pipebang (~109.28.00(0/109.28.00)): Syntax extension to transform x |! f into f x
[N] dev-perl/IO-Pipely (~0.005.0): Portably create pipe() or pipe-like handles, one way or another.
[N] dev-python/django-pipeline (1.2.9): An asset packaging library for Django
[N] games-puzzle/pipepanic (0.1.3): A simple pipe connecting game
[N] games-puzzle/pipewalker (0.9.4): Rotating pieces puzzle game
[N] net-misc/datapipe (~1.0-r1): bind a local port and connect it to a remote socket
[N] net-misc/netpipe (~1.0.0_beta2-r1): tool to reliably distribute binary data using UDP broadcasting techniques
[N] net-misc/netpipes (4.2-r1): netpipes - a package to manipulate BSD TCP/IP stream sockets
[N] net-misc/pipes (~1.16.1): Very versatile TCP pipes
[N] net-proxy/piper (~1.14): Piper (a tool for manipulating SOCKS5 servers)
[N] sci-chemistry/xyza2pipe (~20101129): Cross conversion environment of NMR spectra
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