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I need a way to monitor the accumulated total number of bytes written to the disk by a process via the terminal. I've looked around quite a bit, and found several answers either saying to use pv, or iotop. However, pv is not installed on macOS out-of-the-box, and the version of iotop installed on macOS lacks the -a accumulated switch.

On top of that iotop requires SIP be disabled in newer versions of macOS, meaning it won't work with an out-of-the-box Mac. I need a method using tools built into macOS, they can require root access, they cannot require any non-stock macOS dependencies, e.g. Macports/Brew based software. Preferably in the stock version of Bash.

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Alison E.E.
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  • @bmike This isn't a duplicate. I explicitly stated I require a way to monitor the accumulated number of bytes written by a process, not the process's write speed per second. As I mentioned, iotop has a switch for this on Linux, but the version built into Sierra doesn't mention or support that switch. I also need a way that doesn't require SIP be disabled. – Alison E.E. Sep 13 '17 at 08:03
  • Sounds good. If the API is private, your answer could likely be no or no one has publicly released / reverse engineeed this yet. No harm in having it sit here until someone invests time to make the tool or tool chain you seek. – bmike Sep 13 '17 at 09:39

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