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Unfortunately, dd on OSX has no status option:

But it reacts to signals too, like dd on Linux. It's another signal however: siginfo.

And signal siginfo is coupled to key-combination CTRL-T. No need to use kill, you can just type CTRL-T in the terminal window where dd is running:

Didier Stevens
Senior handler
Microsoft MVP
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