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Fixed broken command which did totally wrong thing (assigned a string to shell variable instead of writing data to output file). Tested the fix in edit to make sure it works.
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hyde
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for me easiest to use and best looking so far is command pv or bar like some guy already wrote

for example: need to make a backup of entire drive with dd

normally you use dd if="$input_drive_path" of="$output_file_path"

with pv you can make it like this :

dd if="$input_drive_path" | pv | dd of="$output_file_path"

and the progress goes directly to STDOUT as this:

 7.46GB 0:33:40 [3.78MB/s] [ <=> ]

after it is done summary comes up

 15654912+0 records in 15654912+0 records out 8015314944 bytes (8.0 GB) copied, 2020.49 s, 4.0 MB/s

for me easiest to use and best looking so far is command pv or bar like some guy already wrote

for example: need to make a backup of entire drive with dd

normally you use dd if="$input_drive_path" of="$output_file_path"

with pv you can make it like this :

dd if="$input_drive_path" | pv | of="$output_file_path"

and the progress goes directly to STDOUT as this:

 7.46GB 0:33:40 [3.78MB/s] [ <=> ]

after it is done summary comes up

 15654912+0 records in 15654912+0 records out 8015314944 bytes (8.0 GB) copied, 2020.49 s, 4.0 MB/s

for me easiest to use and best looking so far is command pv or bar like some guy already wrote

for example: need to make a backup of entire drive with dd

normally you use dd if="$input_drive_path" of="$output_file_path"

with pv you can make it like this :

dd if="$input_drive_path" | pv | dd of="$output_file_path"

and the progress goes directly to STDOUT as this:

 7.46GB 0:33:40 [3.78MB/s] [ <=> ]

after it is done summary comes up

 15654912+0 records in 15654912+0 records out 8015314944 bytes (8.0 GB) copied, 2020.49 s, 4.0 MB/s
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lukassos
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for me easiest to use and best looking so far is command pv or bar like some guy already wrote

for example: need to make a backup of entire drive with dd

normally you use dd if="$input_drive_path" of="$output_file_path"

with pv you can make it like this :

dd if="$input_drive_path" | pv | of="$output_file_path"

and the progress goes directly to STDOUT as this:

 7.46GB 0:33:40 [3.78MB/s] [ <=> ]

after it is done summary comes up

 15654912+0 records in 15654912+0 records out 8015314944 bytes (8.0 GB) copied, 2020.49 s, 4.0 MB/s