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#/bin/sh
# Credits for the idea: http://linuxcommando.blogspot.com/2008/06/show-progress-during-dd-copy.html
# Written by Louis Delacroix
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=512 count=3000000 &
PID=$!
echo "The dd process runs with PID is $PID. Watching..."
watch -n 1 --no-title --errexit kill -USR1 $PID
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