the dd on my machine (from the gnu coreutils 8.24) does just that with the &#x27;status=progress&#x27; option.<p>dd if=&#x2F;dev&#x2F;zero of=&#x2F;dev&#x2F;null status=progress
4814691328 bytes (4,8 GB) copied, 4,000000 s, 1,2 GB<p>It&#x27;s only the size copied and the speed but it&#x27;s usually enough.