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Re:Pipe Viewer by Erwin on Thursday May 24, 2012 @07:36PM (#4021149)
On FreeBSD (and maybe Mac OS X) you can press Control-T to send a SIGINFO signal (non-standard extension. This prints out how far dd has gotten (and perhaps other FreeBSD utilities too).
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Re:Pipe Viewer by there on Thursday May 24, 2012 @11:35PM (#4021765)
You may need to setup your terminal to do that with:

    stty status '^T'
fsck also responds to SIGINFO by printing its status. I had to hack up rsync to do it (http://jcs.org/patches/rsync-show_current_file.diff), and I wish more utilities supported it by default.
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