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Jan 11, 2023 at 9:28 history edited Stéphane Chazelas CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 16, 2022 at 15:33 comment added Stéphane Chazelas @PatS, try sh -c 'echo "scriptname: $0; 1st arg: $1, 2nd: $2"; will-error-out' A B C D to demonstrate how you pass arguments to an inline script (a script whose contents is passed as the -c argument).
Aug 16, 2022 at 14:30 history edited Stéphane Chazelas CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 11, 2022 at 7:25 history edited Stéphane Chazelas CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 8, 2022 at 21:21 history edited Stéphane Chazelas CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 8, 2022 at 20:52 comment added Stéphane Chazelas @roaima You need iflag=fullblock in cmd | dd bs=somesize count=1 iflag=fullblock of=file if you want to make sure file contains the first somesize bytes of the output of cmd. You don't need it if you omit count to get the full output of cmd into file.
Aug 8, 2022 at 20:49 comment added Chris Davies Is GNU particularly less reliable than any other? You need iflag=fullblock when reading variable sized blocks (or maybe just temporarily zero byte blocks) with GNU dd
Aug 8, 2022 at 20:47 comment added Stéphane Chazelas @roaima, that's GNU specific and not necessary without a count, dd just transfers along what it reads, short read or not.
Aug 8, 2022 at 20:46 comment added Chris Davies dd iflag=fullblock
Aug 8, 2022 at 20:39 comment added Stéphane Chazelas @doneal24, cat alone can't do it here, you need it combined with sh to open the file for writing. dd can do the opening and read+write loop, cp as well, though /dev/stdin is not fully portable.
Aug 8, 2022 at 20:37 history edited Stéphane Chazelas CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 8, 2022 at 20:37 comment added doneal24 I'm not sure I've ever seen you give a answer using dd when either cp or cat would work instead. Is there an equivalent to the useless use of dd?
Aug 8, 2022 at 20:32 history edited Stéphane Chazelas CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 8, 2022 at 20:23 history answered Stéphane Chazelas CC BY-SA 4.0