Track dd progress in terminal

progress.md

• Progress can track progress of data transfer processes. Install with:

brew install progress

• Then launch dd, get its PID with:

ps aux | grep "dd"

• Or with pidof

brew install pidof

• And use the tool to track progress:

sudo progress -mp 87370

• Result:

[87370] dd ~/Desktop/Mavericks.iso
        60.9% (4.4 GiB / 7.1 GiB) 5.3 MiB/s remaining 0:09:01