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author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-07-25 07:45:20 +0000 |
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committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2003-07-25 07:45:20 +0000 |
commit | 7fd35644894fe721ae5396d0e3dea09f2ebf04ff (patch) | |
tree | aefbd53505f79cbd4a2d8e69b2f577d736955b7f /src/dd.c | |
parent | afbd32c040538f83af18579da5a887e8b3f95257 (diff) | |
download | coreutils-7fd35644894fe721ae5396d0e3dea09f2ebf04ff.tar.xz |
(usage): Document the fact that SIGUSR1 makes dd
output its current record counts. Reported by Jurriaan.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/dd.c')
-rw-r--r-- | src/dd.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -327,6 +327,17 @@ Each KEYWORD may be:\n\ sync pad every input block with NULs to ibs-size; when used\n\ with block or unblock, pad with spaces rather than NULs\n\ "), stdout); + fputs (_("\ +\n\ +Note that sending a SIGUSR1 signal to a running `dd' process makes it\n\ +print to standard error the number of records read and written so far,\n\ +then to resume copying.\n\ +\n\ + $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null& pid=$!\n\ + $ kill -USR1 $pid; sleep 1; kill $pid\n\ + 10899206+0 records in\n\ + 10899206+0 records out\n\ +"), stdout); printf (_("\nReport bugs to <%s>.\n"), PACKAGE_BUGREPORT); } exit (status); |