One big caveat here: In Zsh (and maybe other shells) you might have to explictly enable comments in interactive sessions: setopt interactivecomments
I'm on EndeavourOS, but my laptop will be moving to Fedora Sericea (Silverblue, but Sway) to try that out.
pv, which is like cat, simply copying files or stdin to stdout, but prints statistics to the terminal.A related tip: dd isn't special in the way most people use it. This works too, if you're root: pv my-fav-distro.iso > /dev/sdc
One big caveat here: In Zsh (and maybe other shells) you might have to explictly enable comments in interactive sessions:
setopt interactivecomments