Apple - How can I track progress of dd

The same information, displayed every second by in klanomath's answer, can displayed using your command. You just need to enter a controlT character from the keyboard while the dd command is executing.

By pressing the controlT character, you are sending the same SIGINFO signal to the dd command that the command pkill -INFO -x dd sends.

As of coreutils 8.24, dd added a status options. Install coreutils with Homebrew to update dd.

brew install coreutils
# All commands have been installed with the prefix 'g'
sudo gdd if=XXXX.iso of=/dev/diskX bs=1 status=progress 

> example:
> 139648967 bytes (140 MB, 133 MiB) copied, 304 s, 459 kB/s    

dd itself doesn't provide a progress bar. You may estimate the progress of the dd copy process by adding a pkill -INFO command though.

Example:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=64m count=1000 & while pkill -INFO -x dd; do sleep 1; done

Result:

[1] 37691
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 0.028923 secs (0 bytes/sec)
275+0 records in
275+0 records out
18454937600 bytes transferred in 1.029698 secs (17922667819 bytes/sec)
553+0 records in
553+0 records out
37111201792 bytes transferred in 2.048291 secs (18118129881 bytes/sec)
829+0 records in
829+0 records out
55633248256 bytes transferred in 3.068911 secs (18128009214 bytes/sec)
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
67108864000 bytes transferred in 3.720346 secs (18038339571 bytes/sec)
[1]+  Done                    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=64m count=1000

Which translates to a whopping 18.1 GB/s.