This script allows to easily run dd with pv pipe, resulting in a nice and accurate progress bar.
I always use dd to write images to disks and I'm not satisfied by status=progress so I end up using pv
Ocasionally I've found myself puzzeled by what is the proper syntax for piping dd .. | pv ..
So I finally decided to write a script for that!
$ chmod 750 ./ddpv.sh
$ ./ddpv.sh /path/to/your/image /dev/sdx
### Optionally specify block-size:
$ ./ddpv.sh /path/to/your/image /dev/sdx 16M
- Don't run as root - sudo is used
- Add a check if target is smaller than source
- Maybe generify the script to be able to move also regular files and other unix file-like objects
License: MIT License
Author: Max Grinberg (@codeswhite)