pymultiwriter is like a CLI version of gnome-multi-writer: it writes disk images to several USB disks in parallel, but doesn't require GTK 3.12 or any other fancy GUI things! Compared to dd, pymultiwriter is
- Easier: it shows an always up-to-date list of connected USB disks (via udev).
No need to check
dmesgfor device names, and no need to unmount (it does that automatically). - Safer: you won't accidentally write to your internal disk using pymultiwriter: it only shows USB disks.
- Nicer: transfer speed, ETA and some smileys are displayed
Since pymultiwriter needs udev and /proc, it only works on Linux.
I'm not responsible if this deletes your hamster. Be careful.