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Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by ramidarigaz on Saturday July 12, 2014 @12:19PM (#8024936)
dd has a similar feature, but with SIGUSR (kill -USR1), and it works on Linux too.
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Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by ysangkok on Saturday July 12, 2014 @01:49PM (#8025238)
How do you fire that signal from the console ?
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Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by koenigdavidmj on Saturday July 12, 2014 @03:53PM (#8025622) 

  pkill -USR1 dd
You'll need to use ps to get the pid if you've got multiple dd instances running, and you'll of course need to run that as root if your dd instance is running as root.
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Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by spoiler on Saturday July 12, 2014 @02:17PM (#8025325)
By using

    kill -s <Signal> <Process ID>
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Re:Show HN: Linux tool to show progress for cp, rm, dd, etc. by akshatpradhan on Saturday July 12, 2014 @08:34PM (#8026217)
Personally, I think the experience of typing ctrl+t is better than using pkill. Just 2 keyboard taps and you're done.
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