From 74c6c9b01bfd980a01cf9ea6cf32f8d9d3ff47da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: ImmortalPC <guillaumenuel@hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:12:39 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [DD] Add some tricks for dd

---
 cheatsheets/dd | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cheatsheets/dd b/cheatsheets/dd
index c1db5f3..b2a03c8 100644
--- a/cheatsheets/dd
+++ b/cheatsheets/dd
@@ -2,3 +2,13 @@
 # Note: At the first iteration, we read 512 Bytes.
 # Note: At the second iteration, we read 512 Bytes.
 dd if=/dev/urandom of=/tmp/test.txt count=512 bs=2
+
+# Watch the progress of 'dd'
+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' with `pv` and `dialog` (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
+
+# DD with "graphical" return
+dcfldd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=500K
+