Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc.

Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by adrusi on Saturday July 12, 2014 @07:05AM (#8024238)

Here's a single command which should do the same. It supports cp and dd, but anything else that supports SIGINFO could be added in.

    ps -A | grep -P 'cp|dd' | sed -r 's/^\s*([0-9]+).+$/\1/' | xargs kill -s SIGINFO

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Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by ars on Sunday July 13, 2014 @11:12AM (#8027521)

This assumes the command supports SIGINFO, but that's a BSD thing. Linux commands don't support that, so this is not a replacement.

And did you really just reinvent pkill?

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