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Commands

Commands	Description
`dd if=<source file name> of=<target file name> [Options]`	copies block device from if-source to of-destinatnio
`dd if=<source file name> of=<target file name> status=progress [Options]`	not to be used in scripts as it produces status output
`dd if=/dev/urandom of=<somfile> count=<howoften_bs> bs=1048576`	will generate a file with (`<howoften_bx`)MB as `1048576 bytes = 1Mb`

Get status if you need it and for got status=progress

Open another sessoin (ssh/term) and run the following command:

$ kill -USR1 $(pgrep ^dd)

It will send a signal to dd that it prints out the current status like:

3053+3 records in
3053+2 records out
12809067752 bytes (13 GB) copied, 1222.97 s, 10.5 MB/s