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# Read from {/dev/urandom} 2*512 Bytes and put it into {/tmp/test.txt}
# Note: both iterations each read 512 Bytes (the selected block size).
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/test.txt count=2 bs=512
# Watch the progress of dd(1).
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=4KB &
export dd_pid=`pgrep '^dd'`
while [[ -d /proc/$dd_pid ]]; do
kill -USR1 $dd_pid && sleep 1
clear
done
# Watch the progress of dd(1) with pv(1) and dialog(1), both of which can be
# installed with the following command: apt-get install pv dialog
(
pv -n /dev/zero | dd of=/dev/null bs=128M conv=notrunc,noerror
) 2>&1 | dialog --gauge "Running dd command (cloning), please wait..." 10 70 0
# Watch the progress of dd(1) with pv(1) and zenity(1), both of which can be
# installed with the following command: apt-get install pv zenity
(
pv -n /dev/zero | dd of=/dev/null bs=128M conv=notrunc,noerror
) 2>&1 | zenity --title 'Running dd command (cloning), please wait...' --progress
# Watch the progress of dd(1) with the built-in `progress` functionality, -
# introduced in coreutils v8.24.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=128M status=progress
# DD with "graphical" return
dcfldd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=500K
# This will output the sound from your microphone port to the ssh target
# computer's speaker port. The sound quality is very bad, so you will hear a
# lot of hissing.
dd if=/dev/dsp | ssh -c arcfour -C username@host dd of=/dev/dsp
# Show current progress without interruption (USR1)
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null & pid=$!
kill -USR1 $pid
# Create a 1GiB file with nothing but zeros, ready to mkswap(8) it.
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile count=1048576 bs=1024 status=progress