progress VS random-tools

You could use this: https://github.com/Xfennec/progress

`progress` (https://github.com/Xfennec/progress) and similar can be very helpful too depending on the backup utilities being used (in my case often involving rsync) even if the processes normally have everything set to quiet so no progress information is automatically forthcoming.

pv's progress display is very useful in many contexts, it has been one if the first things I make sure is installed on a new system for years, though I have recently come across https://github.com/Xfennec/progress which is brilliant for some times when pv is not an option or when you want to watch the status of several things which aren't convenient to arrange together via tmux/byobu. Or just for when you forget to use PV and don't want to cancel to change the command.

this is awesome! can you add support for progress

Many years ago I wrote https://github.com/adh/random-tools/blob/master/byc.c which tends to be the tool that I use for copying images from/to block device (it was originally meant for something else which is why you need -p for it to do the right thing).