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beandog
20th October 2010, 22:27
I cobbled this together from a few sources, and it's been helpful for me, so I wanted to pass it along.

This command will use dd to dump the contents of the DVD to a file (say, an .iso file), but it pipes the progress through pv to give you a progress bar.

Pretty handy. :)

$ pv -pter -w 80 /dev/dvd | dd of=movie.iso

0:03:12 [11.8MB/s] [========> ] 22% ETA 0:11:13

Anybody else got any cool little tips?