On Mon, Sep 16, 2024 at 01:12:35PM +0300, Anssi Saari wrote:
Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> writes:
[1] insofar as you want to use dd at all ...
dd does conveniently provide progress and stats whereas cp does not.
stats which are misleading without the proper arguments, so it's a bit
of a wash. This is actually a hard problem because what people expect as
the desired output varies considerably depending on the task at hand.
There are a number of tools which will do variations of this, without
the baggage of dd. (E.g., pv)
