Re: dd enhancement

[paul kairis]

Hi Berny
I just wanted to get only the one line statistics and nothing else.
I have used status=progress in the past. I have coreutils 8.25
Thanks, Paul


On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 1:14 PM Bernhard Voelker <address@hidden>
wrote:

> On 10/5/18 8:24 PM, paul kairis wrote:
> > Is it possible for dd to provide only the transfer statistics line?
> > (eliminate the records in/out lines)
> > The status=noxfer does exactly the opposite, shows records in/out
> > but suppresses transfer stats. suggestion to add a status=xfer like
> > dd if=/dev/zero of=zero.txt bs=1M count=1000 status=xfer
> >
> > 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB, 1000 MiB) copied, 0.772897 s, 1.4 GB/s
> > 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB, 1000 MiB) copied, 0.768838 s, 1.4 GB/s
> > 1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB, 1000 MiB) copied, 0.784605 s, 1.3 GB/s
>
> I'm not sure what you want to achieve, but did you try "status=progress"
> (available since 8.24)?  Well, it still writes the in/out lines, yet
> you'll get the transfer statistics.
>
> Have a nice day,
> Berny
>