Thanks Eric .I got the answer. On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > tag 27803 notabug > thanks > > On 07/24/2017 09:34 AM, vasanth kumar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I run a dd command successfully, it actually prints I/O statistics > to > > standard error and not stdout . Is not it suppposed to print it on stdout > > by default for a good run? > > No, POSIX requires that it print stats to stderr. > http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/dd.html > "STDERR > > On completion, dd shall write the number of input and output blocks > to standard error...." > > Therefore, the behavior is intentional, and I'm closing this as not a > bug. However, feel free to reply to this thread if you have further > questions on the topic. > > -- > Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer > Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 > Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org > >