You don't always know how many bytes remain to be copied, e.g. in the case of a ...

amalcon on Jan 11, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: dd built-in progress introduced in coreutils 8.24

You don't always know how many bytes remain to be copied, e.g. in the case of a FIFO. It could theoretically do things differently in the cases where you do know, however.