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#1591349 ·published 2009-10-03 22:06 UTC
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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