[OE-core] [PATCH] ddimage: if 'pv' is installed, use it
Christopher Larson
kergoth at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 04:56:18 UTC 2016
From: Christopher Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
This gives us a progress bar for the image write, which is quite helpful. See
https://www.ivarch.com/programs/pv.shtml.
Signed-off-by: Christopher Larson <chris_larson at mentor.com>
---
scripts/contrib/ddimage | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/contrib/ddimage b/scripts/contrib/ddimage
index a503f11..ab92995 100755
--- a/scripts/contrib/ddimage
+++ b/scripts/contrib/ddimage
@@ -100,5 +100,9 @@ if [ "$RESPONSE" != "y" ]; then
fi
echo "Writing image..."
-dd if="$IMAGE" of="$DEVICE" bs="$BLOCKSIZE"
+if which pv >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+ pv "$IMAGE" | dd of="$DEVICE" bs="$BLOCKSIZE"
+else
+ dd if="$IMAGE" of="$DEVICE" bs="$BLOCKSIZE"
+fi
sync
--
2.8.0
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